Quotes About Introspection

I was allowing myself to have too much presence in his imagination,

The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really just say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?

All living is listening for a throat to open-- The length of its silence shaping lives. When he opened his mouth to speak, his speech was what was written in the silence, the length of the silence becoming a living.

contain. "You must change your life." And if we hardly know ourselves, "what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people?" Zuckerman poses the question in American

I wasn't really eight anymore. The day you know danger and fear, and know that you are alone, is the day you grow, if not up, then old.

You can close the shutters on your life and dwell in a dreamlike existence, poor in deeds but effervescent in thought.

I don't know what's right. I don't know what's wrong," she said with a shrug. "I don't think anyone knows for sure. They may think they know; they may even convince themselves of it. But sometimes you can't be sure until much, much later when you see how it all worked it out. You just have to do the best you can and hope that it all works out.

Did you know humans are the only creatures alive that know about death?

and there I was, caught in the crossfire, aware of how loud a house could be in the absence of sound.

But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.

You 're too sufficient by yourself...too inside yourself

No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is.

In order to be yourself you have to deconstruct the puzzle of who you were to become who you were meant to be.

We find in silence and body language the shadow of truth.

People always want to move forward even when they are just sitting. They lean forward, look sideways, look backwards and even stand up to see what is ahead of them. Realizing they are actually facing a mirror in front of them.

The present time is the best time for reminiscing the pasts.

Behind every reflection is a shadow. But behind any shadow, there is no reflection.

Being alone is being strong. In many ways it helps. The only thing that may not help is when you only listen to yourself and ignore everything around you.

The purpose of living is not to live in misery or hatred. Solitude cannot fill anybody's emptiness if the object of living is not known.

There is no boredom or denial of faith in solitude, only privacy of priorities.

Do you need a heartfelt-response for anything?... Use your heart in questioning.

Losing in any game is not gambling, but losing yourself is.

Not everyone believes in the beginning and existence of everything, except of himself/herself.