Quotes About Introspection

Another death. The more I see, the less I know.

El tema, escribió él, es el dolor. Cuánto acumulo, cuánto esquivo.

Not that Danny seemed intent on fucking it up, just that he was a man after all, and no one knew better than Luther himself how completely a man could step on his own dick when what he thought he wanted contradicted what he knew he needed. The

Being alone, you see, is the worst of hell's punishments.

need to confess anything to anyone. You go." "And why would I go?

searched for reasons not to blow my brains out. I came up with two or three dozen real fast, but I still wasn't certain I could listen to many more conversations between Brandon and one of his "bras.

I just notice people sometimes mistake their life choices for their moral ones.

You see the worst in the best of people," she said, shaking her head, "and the best in the worst of people.

Invecchiamo sotto gli occhi di tutti, pensò, ma siamo sempre gli ultimi a saperlo. da Ogni nostra caduta, 2017

She couldn't tell if the sadness in his smile stemmed from pity for her or if he just possessed a sad smile.

Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.

One way to test whether you have chosen your friends wisely is to ask yourself why they are your friends. If your only answer is that you like them and they are fun to be with (certainly important components of friendship), you probably haven't given consideration to their values. Or try this: what case could you make to people who have never met your friends to prove that your friends are good people?

The only happy people I know are people I don't know well.

The happiness that the psychologically impaired achieve through religion alone is often the shallow happiness of the unexamined life.

I wrote about the night bird cries, the sea sounds and the lonely barking, and I liked what I wrote in flashes; but something was wrong with it. There is always something wrong with writing. So I tore the paper up at last, liking the untouched memory so much better, not wanting it forced into the insincerity of words.

Human beings have a tremendous need to have quiet time alone, to reflect upon life and reconnect with the soul.

changes must be made from the inside out.

many of the problems we encounter in life come from the mind within, rather than the external world. To solve such problems, we need to stop blaming outside forces that we have no control over, and instead take a long hard look at ourselves. When we realize that we are the cause of our own misfortunes, we can begin to adjust our thinking at a fundamental level, and start to create real changes.

Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.

So, when you come to your Marah, your bitter waters, and you begin to grumble, realise that there is something in you that must be dealt with and that God brought you to that place so He might deal with that thing, but He can only deal with it if you co-operate.

I do not live in you, I bear my house inside me, everywhere until your winters grow more kind by the dancing firelight of mind where knobs of brass do not exist whose doors dissolve in tenderness House that lets in, at last, those fears that are its guests, to sit on chairs feasts on their human faces, and takes pity simply by the hand shows her her room, and feels the hum of wood and brick becoming home.

These are the days when, however simple the future, we do not go towards it but leave part of life in a lobby whose elevators divide and enclose us, brightening digits that show exactly where we are headed, while a young Polish woman is emptying an ashtray, and we are drawn to a window whose strings, if we pull them, widen an emptiness.

Every word I have written took the wrong approach. I

Even a brief glimpse of what we were is valuable to help understand what we are