Quotes About Introspection

It hasn't been easy to listen to the conversations at the table. Even without anyone expecting me to say anything. It hasn't been easy to sit there watching other people's lives go on. I

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; "But I like it "Because it is bitter, `And because it is my heart." Stephen Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.

A day without The Philosophy is a day without myself.

A fool is he who begs of thee the answers to all creation.

Could it be that this will be my greatest downfall?

First, you must understand you are nothing. And from there, you can become something.

For someone so young, I think an awful lot about mortality.

Look in the mirror and ask yourself if you are the best version of you.

My greatest fear, is that when in the state of judgement, I am shown All that I could have done, had I trusted more.

My struggles are my own and my creator is the only other who knows of them.

Never, should you, reveal all the dimensions of yourself.

One can never truly know a person's every thought and action and so a person can never truly be known.

Perhaps the greatest waste of time is getting to know someone.

Religion is but a book; it is your own self and the decisions you make that form goodness and badness.

Solving the problems of this world may be something I have to let go. I suppose there's a lot I will have to let go.

The evilness of doubt crept ever so closer to my heart.

The expectations of oneself reflect the knowledge and imagination of oneself.

The greatest mistake we humans make is thinking we know all there is to know. The truth is; we know nothing.

Then came the time to let the world, into my world.

To be a writer is to gouge out one's mind, heart and soul and splatter them across the page for the world to judge.