Quotes About Introspection

There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror? - That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald

something is always falling apart in me.

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

No matter who you are, there is some part of you that always wishes you were someone else.

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

We Pisces, we're a special breed.

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; it's the legroom for the lies you will tell yourself in the future.

The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?

She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.