Quotes About Introspection

Do you think that too, " she said, "that I have slept too long in the moonlight?

I quit because I was good, and when you're good and a girl at something, you should be suspicious.''Of what?''Of what part of yourself you didn't know you were selling.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles your dreams your telephone number.

My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

The mirror is the conscience of women they never do a thing without first consulting it.

Most men who run down women are running down one woman only.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Work at being a humble person.

It's always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

I've done some things that I shouldn't have done but I know I'm not a bad person, and I know that I can become a better person... Only thing I can do is work at it.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

If in your mind it was possible to take a year's sabbatical from work to reassess your life, what would you do and where would you go?

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.