Quotes About Introspection

Kendini suçlaman?n rahatlat?c? bir yan? vard?. Kendimizi suçlad???m?zda baÅŸka hiç kimsenin bizi suçlamaya hakk? olmaz. Rahip deÄŸil ancak itiraf?n kendisidir bizi ba???layan.

Of course I need not remind you how fluid a thing thought is with me-- with us all-- and of what an evanescent substance are our emotions made.

Cada um de nós tem em si o Céu e o Inferno

Suffering is one very long moment.

The only thing that sustains one  through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Wer nicht auf seine Weise denkt, denkt überhaupt nicht.

To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life. I

I love talking about nothing, father.  It is the only thing I know anything about. lord

As he passed out, he used to look with wonder at the black confessionals and long to sit in the dim shadow of one of them and listen to men and women whispering through the worn grating the true story of their lives.

But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid. Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

There is a luxury in self-reproach.

Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators

One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.

For nearly twenty minutes, neither of the men spoke. A fly buzzed noisily about the room, and the ticking of the clock was like the beat of a hammer.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.

So you think that it is only God who sees the soul? Draw that curtain back, and you will see mine.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Lo que tengo ante mí es mi pasado. He de conseguir mirarlo con otros ojos, hacer que el mundo lo mire con otros ojos, hacer que Dios lo mire con otros ojos. Eso no lo puedo conseguir soslayándolo, ni menospreciándolo, ni alabándolo, ni negándolo. Únicamente se puede hacer aceptándolo plenamente como una parte inevitable de la evolución de mi vida y mi carácter: inclinando la cabeza a todo lo que he sufrido.

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.

The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.