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Quotes About Introspection

I would mind it less, said Mrs. Westfall, if you looked a bit sorry or ashamed. The Virginian shook his head at her penitently. I'm tryin' to, he said
~ Owen Wister
He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.
~ p g wodehouse
And, as I mused, the years fell away, hair sprouted on the vast steppes of my head, where never hair has been almost within the memory of man.
~ p g wodehouse
I drew a deepish breath.
~ p g wodehouse
Human beings like to see themselves reflected in clouded mirrors.
~ Par Lagerkvist
I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls.
~ Par Lagerkvist
Hol a saját (irodalmi) múltunk tudatos számbavétele? Egy nyugati könyvesboltban tényleg sírva lehet fakadni: Goethe elölrÅ'l, Goethe hátulról, férfival, kisgyerekkel, kecskével, hajnalban, Schillerrel, Thomas Mann-nal, futólag Kleisttel. Ahogy egy kultúra birtokba veszi önmagát...
~ Peter Esterhazy
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
The gift of seeing ourselves as others see us is, as the poet indicates, vouchsafed to few men.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
I always thought you had you a bad case of head-up-your-ass-itis. -Kramisha
~ P.C. Cast
Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight
~ P.C. Cast
I closed my eyes, bowed my head and thought, AH, HELL . . .
~ P.C. Cast
He leaned back a little, not taking his arm from around me, but looking into my eyes. "You're changing, Zoey. And I'm not sure what you're changing into.
~ P.C. Cast
My purpose? What is my purpose?
~ P.C. Cast
Io restai a fissare il vuoto che aveva lasciato, chiedendomi cosa diavolo ci fosse di sbagliato in me
~ P.C. Cast
I'm a monster, not a moron.
~ P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
When you're alone you don't do much laughing.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The true philosopher is a man who says All right, and goes to sleep in his armchair.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
But why do you want me? I mean, what am I? Ask yourself that. I often have.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those who lived it contemporaneously with himself. He had no enemies and many friends. But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch. One of the two.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings that make a chappie wish he'd got a soul or something
~ P.G. Wodehouse
He was always inclined to read a fictitious sombreness into things when the shadows began to creep over the world and it was still too early for a cocktail.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I did not rush in with the vim I would have displayed a year or so earlier, before Life had made me the grim, suspicious man I am to-day:
~ P.G. Wodehouse