Quotes About Introspection

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, "People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange.

Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.

I too have drunk and seen the spider

her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself

watching the world walk by in its curious shoes

Blink at the sunned scratch and stumble into silence

in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

At one point in one's life you get a sense of your own mortality. You view death in a certain way. From that point on you look at your fellow man with a new understanding. I have some feelings for it now. They say it happens in your mid-thirties. Sometimes I have a fantasy of my corpse being carried around in a box, people mourning me. Saying, "We shouldn't have treated him so badly.

I shall prepare a face to meet the faces that I meet.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.