Quotes About Introspection

What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.

How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me. my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.

La timidez es una condición extraña del alma, una categoría, una dimensión que se abre hacia la soledad.

Quien descubre el quién soy descubrirá el quién eres.

When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.

How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously?

Sin una gran soledad ningún trabajo serio es posible

try to recall the person you thought you were and the moment you began to realize you are not that person, and try to grasp and appreciate the high quality of lunacy required for you to have ever thought you were that person.

You don't have to pay me to tell you this but this a dream born of depression. That's all it is. So what do I do? No idea. Stay awake. Good idea.

experienced a bout of atheism. With adolescent self-importance, I wondered why God would allow all this to happen to a fourteen-year-old girl. When

Hank stared off at the weeping cement wall of their underground room; under the glare of the bare bulb, it reminded him of sweaty skin. Why didn't he ever think about stuff like that? He always assumed people were as plain and straight as he was. Why did everyone else have these dark folds, these wrinkles and kinks to them?

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness." —NEVILLE GODDARD, BARBADIAN AUTHOR AND MYSTIC

Our ideas of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him." —THOMAS MERTON, CHRISTIAN MYSTIC

Writers, it is said, all carry a chip of ice in their hearts

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.

Reading is my only true friend.

Every writer is a reader first.

Dear Reader, that a sense of privacy is the best gift I ever gave myself.

Another rule of thumb is that if it doesn't feel like love—if you're sad more than you're happy—that's a huge indicator that you need to walk. You need to know when to let go.

every woman needs to stop sometimes at the great railway station of life—on the evening of her big birthday, or the end of a big love affair, or even an ordinary afternoon—and take stock of where she is, how she got there, where she's going, and why. That's what you're doing right this very minute. You've already started. And you're already there.

My self-imposed solitude, at first a punishment I inflicted upon myself, became a kind of solace. I was apart from the city, my only reality the thoughts inside myself. Slowly, without the distractions of other companions and the need to mold and modify my ideas in their company, I came to know my own mind and the kind of purpose I might find in my work.

Mi smo kao orah.Moramo biti slomljeni da bi nas upoznali.

Cât e de trist s? fii om È™i s? înÈ›elegi viaÈ›a mai puÈ›in chiar decât lighionanele.