Quotes About Introspection

The less you see, the more you can imagine.

The paintings were a history of his inward life, and he did not particularly care how they fared in the exterior world of change and decay.

This will become the story of a young woman, Karin Weinbrenner. Her story is not mine, but sometimes her story feels like the armature my life has wound itself around. I am telling it, so this story is also about me.

Your American, you wouldn't know if you were up yourself.

He wished to kneel beside him and pray. It was not shyness prevented him from doing it on Southampton railway station...It was the fear of being overcome with emotion. This was his flaw, the crack in his clay, and the more dreadful for being so unexpected...

to live in perpetual darkness allows one to see things more clearly, if that is not a contradiction in terms. It has allowed me to look into men's souls more deeply, to see them for what they are and not what they present to the world. It has been a most illuminating experience.

I think that, to some degree, all of us are fractured souls. Cut in half. And we wander through life looking for the rest of ourselves. And sometimes we're fortunate enough to meet someone who possesses, in themselves, the part of ourselves that we've been missing. We may not realize it on a conscious level, but definitely on a subconscious level. We see in someone else … something of ourselves.

Some time later, I sat in the wine cellar, staring at the walls while cradling a wineskin in my lap like a child, murmuring over and over as if lulling the child to sleep, 'I am shat upon. I am shat upon'.

It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

A wise man is capable of determining his weaknesses and working to address them

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

That one can truly manage other people is by no means adequately proven. But one can always manage oneself.

Spellman often said that during his waking hours he was alone only twice each day, for 25 minutes each time:

Laughter deriding others is only too often incense one burns at one's own self-constructed altar, an altar one knows to be rickety.

Inner speech seems to be an important part of System 2 thinking.

dynamic view of intellect—indeed, of self.

Vivo de aquello que los otros no saben de mí

La agradable sensación de no tener que hablar, de dejar que pase el silencio general, mirando el mar u otra cosa, o incluso nada.

Vielleicht ist ein Schriftsteller in vielem weltfremd. Aber die menschliche Seele, für die ist seine manchmal kindliche Empfindlichkeit das große Auge" -Handke (Briefwechsel mit Unseld)

Perder así el continente ante un simple y estúpido sueño! ¿Y quién era él para hallar solo en tiempos sagrados sentido a la vida? ¡Basta de veleidades subjetivas! Le importaban demasiado las lucubraciones, que otros no podían siquiera permitirse.

En otras ocasiones ella hacía con sus relatos planes para el futuro: <>. Ahora callaba. Intentó conmoverla con recuerdos comunes, pero tampoco respondió a ellos. Las antiguas bromas, que siempre la hacían reír, la dejaron impertérrita. ¡No quería seguir los juegos tácitamente acordados!

y si de pronto hablaba tanto de sí mismo, de su vida «anterior», solo lo hacía para distraer la atención de su persona.

En la habitación de la niña tuvo la sensación de despedirse de algo, no de la niña, sino de la manera de vivir que hasta ahora le había correspondido vivir. Ya no existía ninguna manera de vivir para él.

Ansioso observaba sus propios pensamientos, siempre dispuesto a frenarlos. No quería olvidar ya nada más y repetía mentalmente los momentos recién pasados, como se repasan las palabras de una lengua extraña.