Quotes About Introspection

Other people are quite dreadful.  The only possible society is oneself.

He wanted to escape from himself.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

Still, I am conscious now that behind all this beauty, satisfying though it may be, there is some spirit hidden of which the painted forms and shapes are but modes of manifestation, and it is with this spirit that I desire to become in harmony. I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things.

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

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

However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Dorian to Harry 'Don't, Harry. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.

Frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks that other people have none either is the secret of the failure that lies in wait for him somewhere on the way of Life.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people.

Humanity takes itself too seriously.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the ocassion. It is not he who is revelead by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas , reveals himself.

Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.

No escribo esta carta para poner amargura en tu corazón, sino para arrancarla del mío.

But the world might guess it; and I will not bare my soul to their shallow, prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. There is too much of myself in the thing, Harry--too much of myself!

Jdu proti Ã…â"¢ece, v Ã…â"¢ece je stÃ…â"¢íbro a zlaté listí. Jdu sám a najednou si uvÄ›domuji, že tu nehoukají auta, abych uhnul, a nedrn?í tramvaje, abych couvnul. A to je vlastnÄ› ten hlavní d?vod, pro? jdu na Å¡tiky.

With introverts, what you see is only a portion of their personality. The richest and most trusted parts of an introvert's personality are not necessarily shared with the outside world. It takes time, trust, and special circumstances for them to begin to open up.

Bene vixit, bene qui latuit. (To live well is to live concealed.)

or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.

Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.

How I wish your eyes were able to pierce deep down to my heart and catch a glimpse of your father's anxiety.

But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.