Quotes About Introspection

Once people see the participatory nature of their thought, they begin to separate themselves from their thought. They begin to take a more creative, less reactive, stance toward their thought.

I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world.

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

Mistaking Lucius's silence for acquiescence, he pointed a hard finger at his eyes. "Maybe nobody don't need this truth you're lookin for, ever think about that?

And it is a profound consolation, perhaps the only one, to this haunted animal that wastes most of a long and ghostly life wandering the future and the past on its hind legs, looking for meanings, only to see in the eyes of others of its kind that it must die.

I think what we are feeling in this place is much too large for one simple soul to understand, too powerful.

Maybe you're just wandering around out here with your thumb up your ass, waiting for some answer that might let you off the hook.

although I seldom knew what the date was. It didn't seem important. I was turning into a contented vegetable, maintaining sporadic contact with real life through telephone conversations with people in faraway offices.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The Americans can always be counted upon to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Yeah, I want to retreat from the world and ponder in solitude. At the same time I wouldn't mind at least a couple of people pondering my whereabouts.

I've never been a good liar, except to myself.

I think writers have to able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid

We have to be something more than the accumulation of things that happen to us, don't you think?

Peter Robinson

There was something in him that always stood apart, that she couldn't reach and he wouldn't offer. It wasn't just the Job and its demands, but something deeper: a central core of loneliness. He had been like that even as a child. An observer. Always on the outside, even when he played with others. As Annie said, it was a part of his nature, and he didn't think he could change it if he tried.

Shakespeare can show us what we are like at moments when we cannot see ourselves.

Everyone has boundaries. If you find yourself doing something that makes you bitter, it is time to reconsider.

Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upwards and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be travelled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we will end.

Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be travelled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

The path to wisdom leads downward, and anyone who decides to take it had better buckle on armor, remember to bring a sword, and get used to the idea that when and if he gets back everyone he talks to is going to think he's a phony.

But you write what comes back to you, and then afterward it comes back to you all over again.

Wise men contemplate the world," he thinks, "knowing full well that they are contemplating themselves.