Quotes About Introspection

Se encontró leyendo la misma frase una y otra vez. Se encontró leyendo la misma frase una y otra vez. Se encontró leyendo la misma frase una y otra vez.

From time to time, the Baudelaire children looked at one another, but with their future such a mystery they could think of nothing to say.

My love: You were pretty, and I was lonely. And now I'm .... pretty lonely

I am a loneliness savant

It was like the growing distance I felt inside myself, between the person I wanted to be, the brave volunteer who would soon triumph against evil treachery, and the person I was, sitting in a room with damp socks and a bump on his head, turning a compass around and around in his hands. What are you doing here? I thought. What good are you? But I did not know if I was talking to the compass or the boy who was holding it.

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat anymore, I now eat rice cutlets.

Böcker ska blänka som solar och gnistra som tomtebloss. Medan vi läser böckerna läser böckerna oss. Kan böckerna läsa människor? Det kan de förstås! Hur skulle de annars veta allting om oss?

I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams, whether they were contractual dreams or the public's dreams, or fulfilling my own dreams and illusions about what I thought I was supposed to be, which, in retrospect, turned out to not be what I am.

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can.

Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.

When [Yoko] kicked me out, I saw I was kicked out. When I was kicked out, I realized where I was, which was on a raft in the middle of the universe, and whatever happened, presuming I could have started another relationship, I would have ended up in the same place--if I was lucky. And that's a big if.

O' sanity, o' sanity What am I to do with you? Drink up, shoot up, anything you please But she's always standing behind me like a devil in hell

Maybe he should start this healing journey by trying to figure out how to forgive himself? How could he expect true forgiveness from other is he didn't have the courage to look at himself in the eye and offer forgiveness to the man he'd become?

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Your mind is wandering, desperately trying to keep itself amused. It's not crazy, says therapist Cineas; it could just be a way to occupy yourself. We all have an active inner life: we're busy making remarks, silently snorting, and imagining scenarios.