Quotes About Introspection

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.

I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue.

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have

We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.

She looked long and lean and beautiful, and she was totally unaware of her looks as she called him. She had lived in a world of extraordinary-looking people for so long, and hers was a life of the mind rather than the beauty of face and body. She never thought about it, which somehow made her even more attractive.

and didn't know her own mind, but

there in bed, wondering why she hadn't moved out

quietly. She didn't like being reminded

somewhere. Then he turned serious.

just want to be alone to watch the

confessional atmosphere of the dark

Max was looking out the window, with silent tears running down his face, thinking how hard it must be to be a woman, always having to be strong and comfort others, and how lonely it was to be a man. —

happened. And yet, why did she feel

Et alors que je les regardais faire, que je rencontrais leurs regards, que je touchais leurs mains, j'ai cessé d'avoir peur pour ne plus ressentir qu'une profonde humilité face à leur chaleur et à leur humanité. J'eus soudain honte de la mauvaise opinion que j'avais eue d'eux des années durant. Ce fut un des moments les plus marquants de ma vie.

but she felt like she had to earn him, and she hadn't. Not yet. And maybe never, she admitted to herself.

I recommend keeping a diary. Diaries are cool.

And before any Christian readers get all offended - relax. I'm not saying that I'm the new Jesus. I'm just saying there's a very good chance that I might be.

What would it be like as an adult to open my eyes with a feeling of even mild anticipation?

to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression.