Quotes About Introspection

Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other.

When one believed, one´s soul moved. When one didn´t, everything else moved.

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

a strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.

For what was a book if not a long consecutive surrender to the movements of another's soul?

Why me? A selfish question. Perhaps the most selfish of questions. All burdens, even those as demented as the Apocalypse, must fall upon the shoulders of someone. Why not him?

Sometimes he would stare at the bare trees for so long, they would lose their radial dimensions and seem something flat, like blood smeared into the wrinkles about an old woman's eyes.

If you find yourself taken unawares by someone you thought you knew, recall that the character revealed is as much your own as otherwise.

Look unto others and ponder the sin and folly you find there. For their sin is your sin, and their folly is your folly. Seek ye the true reflecting pool? Look to the stranger you despise, not the friend you love.

few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.

Achamian had felt more than faintly alienated by this talk, as so often happened when confronted by another's excessive enthusiasm.

Dreams drawn from the sheath.

Los pensamientos de todos los hombres surgen de la oscuridad. Si eres el movimiento de tu alma, y la causa de ese movimiento te precede, entonces, ¿cómo podrías llamar tuyos a tus pensamientos? ¿Cómo podrías ser otra cosa que un esclavo de la oscuridad que antecede a todo?

Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the other side of them was seen, and though all men were both at once, men could only truly know the side of themselves that saw and the side of others that was seen—they could only truly know the inner half of themselves and the outer half of others.

Sometimes you think that there are several people inside you; one brave, one cowardly; one intelligent, and another who is a fool. You don't seem to be able to control which one it is who takes command of the situation.

The precondition of giving thanks with sincerity is always humility.

I became more and more confused. My brain got so fuzzy, I even began to wonder if I'd ever actually been a boy at all. Maybe I'd really been a bee for my entire life, and I'd just dreamed about being a boy.

I talk to myself a lot, but it seldom does any good. I'm a tense kid. I know it. But I have good reason to be tense.

HOUSE OF MIRRORS. REFLECT BEFORE YOU ENTER. NO ONE MAY EVER SEE YOU AGAIN!

Two hours after the melon disaster, I sprawled on the floor of my room. Grounded. With nothing to do.

Repentance (Greek, metanoia) means change of mind. So as we get to know God, we get to know ourselves.

will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer? The mirror's a great place to start

I have the feeling I've been— unpleasant.

I get maudlin. Some people drink; some get depressed; some run around having sex with anyone with a pulse. Me, I get philosophical. It's healthier.