Quotes About Introspection

don't need to be with anyone, don't want someone to travel with or talk to. This is all I need. The simplicity of it holds great appeal. I've found the right combination. Music, the note pad, coffee and being alone at night. Good to go. Doing this all over the world is as good as it gets.

Ich halte deinen Kopf wie Hamlet Yorick's gehalten hat, aber du bist auf deinen Knien, mit einer Knarre im Mund.

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.

Some men a forward motion love,But I by backward steps would move.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Three silences there are: the first of speech,The second of desire, the third of thought.

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Thare are people who dont do ennything but watch their simptoms. I have seen dogs ackt just az sensible, i hav seen a rat terrier watch the simptoms ov a knot hole, in a board fence, all day, for sum rat tew cum out, but no rat didn't cum out.

How utterly unprofitable my life is! These continual searchings of my mind are leading me into the desert.

I still seem to hear Sniatynski's words: "Do not philosophize her away, as you have philosophized away your abilities and your thirty-five years of life." I know it leads to nothing, I know it is wrong, but I do not know how not to think. 13

It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearly does not see the reason why he should exist at all. It

the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth.

Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!

He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.

most men do not try] to recognize the truth, but to persuade themselves that the life they are leading, which is what they like and are used to, is a life perfectly consistent with truth.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can't know, and so I can't live," Levin said to himself.

Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these conditions and the difficulty of comprehending them are only his personal, accidental peculiarity, and never thinks that others are surrounded by the same complexity as he is.

If you feel that you are not free, look for the reason inside you.