Quotes About Introspection

Ogniqualvolta si trovava in viaggio da un luogo all'altro, era in grado di valutare la propria vita con un po' più di obiettività del solito. Spesso, proprio durante un viaggio i suoi pensieri divenivano particolarmente lucidi, e prendeva decisioni cui non poteva arrivare quand'era fermo in un luogo.

Men were looking at her, but with neither sympathy nor antipathy. Nor even with curiosity, she thought. They had the absorbed and vacant expression of the man who looks into his handkerchief after blowing his nose.

La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?

You must watch the universe as it cracks over your head.

you're rowing by wordlight

Everyone is a philosopher." Everyone takes a philosophical view of things—a worldview, some call it—even if their philosophical assumptions are subconscious and unexplored.

restricted to a single modality (face, or voice, or such autonomic nervous system changes as indicated by swallowing), it is an important flag that something important is happening which should be explored.

Don't kid yourself munster

Everybody lives inside his or her movie. Mine had usually seemed a light comedy. Then I noticed the first dead bee on the driveway.

God I have been - God I am. But quite frankly, sometimes it is all just a little too much for one small cat.

How can you see the wave, when you're the water?

And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.

Are you sure what you're doing is wrong?

Nobody knows how to just shut the fuck up and look out the window anymore.

It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.

Lying to other people is fine and usually funny, but lying to yourself is tacky.

The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

A person's bathroom, I believe, is the only three-dimensional expression of their soul.

Speak what is in your mind,' Pandit Baba commanded. What insolence, Ahmed thought. There are two categories of things in my mind, he should say, the stuff people like you have fed into it and my own reactions to that stuff. The result is cancellation, so I have nothing in my mind.

that is rare, isn't it? To be explained by yourself, by what you are and what you do, and not by what you've done, or were, or by what people think you might be or might become. I

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again.

The truth about oneself was not 'something given, something which we have to discover – it is something we must create ourselves'. Even

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.

Perjalanan itu bersifat pribadi. Kalaupun aku berjalan bersamamu, perjalananmu bukanlah perjalananku.