Quotes About Introspection

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

I have known everything, said Lord Henry, with a tired look in his eyes, but I am always ready for a new emotion.

But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine. He came close to him and put his hand upon his shoulder. You are quite right to do that, he murmured. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage.

The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul.

wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

The less said about life's sores the better.

He was prisoned in thought. Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.

The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

What you read when you don't have to will determine what you will be when you can't help it.

Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

passion makes one think in a circle

Ones own soul, and the passions of one's friends—those were the fascinating things in life.

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

Conciencia y cobardía son lo mismo realmente, Basil. La conciencia es el nombre comercial de la empresa. Eso es todo

You always want to know what one has been doing. I always want to forget what I have been doing.

People used to say of me that I was too individualistic. I must be far more of an individualist than ever I was. I must get far more out of myself than ever I got, and ask far less of the world than ever I asked. Indeed, my ruin came not from too great individualism of life, but from too little. The one disgraceful, unpardonable, and to all time contemptible action of my life was to allow myself to appeal to society for help and protection.

none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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