Quotes About Introspection

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

By nature I'm not a brooder.

It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.

It is only when we are by ourselves that we can know others. When we are with other human beings we are distracted. People try and dream us into their dreams.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

My job has always been to hold a mirror up to nature.

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.