Quotes About Introspection

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Our thoughts are free.

Supongo que el mensaje cliché es "nunca te rindas". Yo prefiero decir: "aprendé a convivir con tus sombras". Y no más.

Me pasé varias horas llorando mirándome al espejo, viendo como me caían las lágrimas. Quien diga que nunca lo hizo, miente. Es reconfortable saber que hay testigos de nuestra tristeza, aunque no sea más que nuestro reflejo.

Con el tiempo y con los retos de mi vida me di cuenta de que lo que piensa la gente no me interesa, o que al menos puedo fingir que no me interesa y puedo hacer que la gente crea que soy autosuficiente. Lo cierto es que me interesa por demás de la línea de lo normal o esperado.

Lo conozco, se que no va a ser feliz con nadie, porque ni siquiera es feliz consigo mismo. Siempre volvió, siempre vuelve, siempre va a volver.

Verme al espejo era la única manera de encontrarme con alguien qué sabia quien era.

It's not about what people think. It's about who you are.

Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it.

You're a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way.

Sometimes you have to get away to remember who you are. Believe in yourself, Lyss. You're strong and smart enough to do this job. Never let anyone tell you different.

Stupid. He was stupid. He was tired of being stupid.

she'd learned not to ask every question that cane to mind, knowing some things would be understood in their own time

He'd always found that he learned more if he kept quiet.

Ask them. But you're not a soldier, I'm not sure what you are, but you're not that.

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

I know I have this judgmental side that I'm often fighting against. But today I recognized the depths of my assumptions about people. What I envision is nothing remotely similar to the reality. Humility hurts. Coming home is disturbing.