Quotes About Introspection

Oh God, you make the ones like Brother James who never question, and you make the ones like Esau who never believe, and why do you have to make the in-between ones like me? But

The paradox of our modern world is that we know so much about so many things, about how things work, but so little about who we are as persons, why we are.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

when meeting someone, our brains are in overdrive. Remember Shakespeare's Julius Caesar? He said of Cassius, he "has a lean and hungry look . . . he thinks too much . . . such men are dangerous.

If I don't know who I am, then how can I know what I want?

Peace was a more dignified version of defeat.

silence. Finally, he said, "So you and

Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn't you. That isn't you at all.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.

Are you who I think you are?

Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.