Quotes About Introspection

Perhaps not without a future. His future would be a future of questions, of remembering all that he had forgotten. And perhaps that was all the future he needed, the act of asking was an end in itself.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

She lay in the dark and knew everything.

It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.

Brain Salad Surgery.

went to take a look at it. A plaque

Down Where the Drunkards Roll." "How

one was very

He had been thinking too of goodies and baddies. If you thought bad things – dreams of cruelty and lust – that didn't make you bad. But if your head was full of civilised thoughts and you spent all day as a torturer … It came down to the fact that you were judged by your actions in society, not by the inside of your head.

But you used to know a good thing when you saw it. Trouble is, that's never what I see when I look in the mirror. What do you see? He looked at her. Sometimes I don't see anything at all.

Pretty much.

muttered. Then:

As time's gone on, I've probably become a lot more like him (John Rebus): I drink at his bar and I like to be one on one with my music late at night.

trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch a letter on my hand; put it on top so I can see the jagged edges bleeding out; S. S is for sorrow, for all I don't say. S is for sick now, my punishing ways.

An apology is not the second way in.

All through high school, I was reading Iceberg Slim. He was the first author I discovered who truly delved

I have often found it difficult to explain myself to myself, and I do not often try.

Abrir palabra por palabra el páramo, Abrirnos y mirar hacia la significante abertura, sufrir para labrar el sitio de la brasa, luego extinguirla y mitigar la queja del quemado.

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Remedy Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it. Hazrat Ali

A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.