Quotes About Introspection

If your purpose is to make someone happy, you're more apt to succeed if you make yourself the object. You'll never know another person more than a fraction as well as you can know yourself.

What's right with America is a willingness to discuss what's wrong with America.

A man has to know his limitations.

Mildred ließ sich auf einen Stuhl fallen. "Du weißt ja: Wer im Glashaus sitzt... Vielleicht hab ich 'n Sprung in der Schüssel. Und wennschon. Ich werd' euch mal ein Geheimnis verraten: Wenn die Schüssel 'nen Sprung hat, dann kommt mehr Licht rein. Also bin ich doch schlauer als ihr.

That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

Facts about ourselves are not peculiarly solid and resistant to skeptical dissolution. Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial — notoriously less stable and less inherent than the natures of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.

I always get the best advice from myself.

We don't truly know anyone, all we know is what we want to see, and what they want to show us.

Only when she was alone did she have the sense that she really existed; other people might be frightened precisely because of that sense, but she was frightened of other people because they stole it from her.

Ik ben van plan een verhaal te schrijven, waarin een vent bezig is een verhaal te schrijven. En in het verhaal, dat die tweede vent schrijft is ook een vent bezig een verhaal te schrijven. En in het verhaal weer, dat die vent schrijft, is weer een vent bezig een verhaal te schrijven, en zo tot in het oneindige. En weet je nu wie die vent is, die het verhaal schrijft in het verhaal van de oneindigste vent? ... Ik.

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All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.

You could chat with anyone; being silent together without it becoming embarrassing was a lot rarer.

Gelukkig is het geschrevene iets dat hoorbaar is zonder gehoord te hoeven worden. Zelfs het bescheidenste woordje dat ik neerschrijf, het woordje "zwijgen" bijvoorbeeld, overstemt het inferno in die stenen put.

The world was a soup and thought was generally a fork: it seldom resulted in a good meal.

The ecstasy of the moment will, I believe, lead the way to the terribly elusive clarity I seek.

Study men, not historians.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

It may behoove you to learn why you do what you do,

All the lights couldn't put out the dark Runnin' through my heart

Thought was slower than anger to flower into action, but it was a hardy perennial. It did not bloom and die.

Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.