Quotes About Introspection

Le radici dell'orrore sono dappertutto. L'orrore siamo noi.

The greatest mystery is what lies within

[W]e do not have such a clear mirror for our minds as we do for our bodies.

The human heart is a dark forest

In order for us to live comfortably with ourselves while living on unjust terms with others, we have to tell ourselves a story that makes us innocent.

You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.

There in that embrace, she feels something shuffling around, moving warily fumbling through the dusty rooms of her heart, and, one by one, turning on the lights

Bad writing is almost always a love poem addressed by the self to the self. The person who will admire it first and last and most is the writer herself.

I know i barely talk and pretty much act like I'm not here, but I'm totally here and have a million things to say, and me being me is exactly as insane as you being you.

Is there some reason for my being here except to live out my allotted time, to burn my days alongside others who are, in turn, burning theirs?

Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?

The first person we have to tell the truth to is ourselves. If we are not going to be honest with ourselves, there is little possibility that we will treat anyone else differently.

In my experience what goes on inside us is reflected on the outside, and vice versa. Perhaps they are two aspects of the same thing. You can either clean up your act in what we think of as the real world and this will clarify what is within, or you can work from the other direction.

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

Sou eu o culpado, mas não tenho culpa.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

L'homme a conscience d'être un Dieu et il a raison parce que Dieu est en lui. Il a conscience d'être un cochon et il a également raison parce que le cochon est en lui. Mais il se trompe lorsqu'il prend le cochon pour un Dieu.

On sentait ce détachement de toutes les choses de ce monde qui terrifie un homme en vie.

Boga je teško spoznati, ali to ne zna?i da ga nema, ve? je to znak Njegovog Veli?anstva, a naše slabosti. Bog je kao ?ista voda koju bismo htjeli da popijemo; a ne možete ?istu vodu naliti u prljav sud, pa onda suditi o njenoj ?isto?i

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

Todos pensam em mudar a humanidade e ninguém pensa em mudar a si mesmo.

A photograph is a cipher for which we consult our own code books.

my experience, few things waste as much time and energy as apportioning blame.