Quotes About Introspection

When you're older, you'll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

I want to be left alone.

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

Being alone makes us stronger. That's the honest truth. But it's cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Feeling alone guides the mind.

It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.