Quotes About Introspection

The unexamined life isn't worth the high price that you must pay for it.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

If anything, he seemed a little lonely, all too ready to open his heart at the slightest sign of interst.

I've matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

The life he heard over the phone was his life.

They walk the wire across the chasms of their own souls, looking down into the great depths as, step by step, they cross to the distant side. On occasion they've learned something by the time they get there, but not always, and usually not what they expect.

At first I thought that my life was going around in circles. Then I got to looking closer, and it's actually a downward spiral.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

Looking for who I am is who I am.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find...

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I'd just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

The person I fear most in the last two rounds is myself

Evil people can not see the evil in others because of their own evil.

There are no stupid questions except What's my name again?

Czech: ?ekni mi, co ?teš, a já ti ?eknu, kdo jsi. English: Tell me what you read, and I'll tell you who you are. First president of Czechoslovakia.