Quotes About Introspection

First impressions are often entirely wrong.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

As I'm sure you know, whenever there is a mirror around, it is almost impossible not to take a look at yourself. Even though we all know what we look like, we all like just to look at our reflections, if only to see how we're doing.

I get sad, when I think of my own wicked acts, although I supposed if I weren't sad about them it would mean I didn't care. I'm glad that I care, so I'm a little happy that I'm sad.

I'm not smart, Snicket. I don't ask the right questions and I never find the right answers.

I get a small quiver of shame in my stomach whenever I remember it.

There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even whey they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.

reread favourite books as if you are taking apart a clock

trivial as her hair. This morning she was thinking about how to construct

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest brand, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

It was a puzzle, a dark and lonely one, and if I were a piece in this puzzle, I did not know where it belonged. I needed to put myself aside, just for a little while, until I saw where I might fit in.

Who you are and what you read is private in a library.

I have instructed myself, over and over, to keep my notebook handy at all times, but if you told me to describe myself in one word, it would be "not very good at following directions.

When we met, you were pretty, and I was lonely. Now, I am pretty lonely.

Telling yourself that something does not matter is one of the loneliest things you can do, because you only say it, of course, about things that matter very much But often, and this is the lonely part, they only mat- ter to you.

It is curious to look at one's family and try to imagine how they look to strangers.

A világon a legnehezebb dolgok közé tartozik a megbánás. Ha valami történik az emberrel, és Å' nem megfelelÅ'en viselkedik, akkor ez az emlék éveken át bánthatja, de akkor már késÅ' azon gyötrÅ'dni, hogyan kellett volna helyesen cselekedni.

I will suddenly remember this thing I did, and think to myself, Was it really necessary?

it is almost as if enormous philosophical questions are not designed to be answered at all, but just to make you think

There were no books in the room as far as I could see. I should have known better.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward, you will wish you had done something different.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

La timidez es algo curioso, por que, al igual que las arenas movedizas, se apodera de las personas en cualquier momento y, también como las arenas movedizas, hace que sus víctimas miren hacia abajo.