Quotes About Introspection

Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.

I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best.

Really, The smart thing to do was to stop dating and get a cat.

I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Pray that thy last days, and last works may be the best; and that when thou comest to die, thou mayest have nothing else to do but die.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.