Quotes About Introspection

I wonder how it is that we go along year after year never questioning the routines we've set for ourselves, never wondering if it could be different.

until we can identify the root cause of our actions, we are doomed to make some version of the same mistakes again and again.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anaïs Nin

The wound is the place where the Light enters you." ?Rumi

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.

Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, "I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there's something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it's not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It's not like I sit here philosophizing, because I've no talent for that. It's just this thing about silence that's so wonderful.

Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts; it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why?

Death: Do you never stop questioning? Antonius Block: No. I never stop.

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven't read, find out things I haven't yet found out. I want to write things I haven't written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal . My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry — with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.

I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.

Its so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.

No hay tiempo para discutir la soledad.

Alexander: Ingen jävel har en tanke i huvet. Oscar: Du måste vare rädd om mänskor, Alexander. Alexander: Idiotar. Nästsn allihop. Oscar: Så småningom kommer du att förstå - Alexander: Jag tror inte på det där snacket. "Så småningom kommer du att förstå." Vilket förbannat så småningom? Jag ser klart. Mänskor är löjliga och jag tyckar illa om dem.

Alexander: Ingen jävel har en tanke i huvet. Oscar: Du måste vare rädd om mänskor, Alexander. Alexander: Idiotar. Nästan allihop. Oscar: Så småningom kommer du att förstå - Alexander: Jag tror inte på det där snacket. "Så småningom kommer du att förstå." Vilket förbannat så småningom? Jag ser klart. Mänskor är löjliga och jag tyckar illa om dem.

Every artist who creates intense depictions of his own problems, which he believes not only to be important to him, but also to others, needs to use himself.

I have always felt lonely in the world out there. That is why I escaped into filmmaking even though the feeling of community is an illusion.

Dac? m? sim?eam atacat,mu?cam la rândul meu ca un câine r?nit.Nu aveam încredere în nimeni,nu iubeam pe nimeni,nu sim?eam lipsa nim?nui.Eram subjugat de o sexualitate care m? împingea spre o permanent? infidelitate ?i ac?iuni for?ate,mereu chinuit de dorin??,team?,angoas? ?i con?tiin?? înc?rcat?.

Quiero confesarme y no sé qué decir. Mi corazón está vacío. El vacío es como un espejo puesto delante de mi rostro. Me veo a mí mismo, y al contemplarlo siento un profundo desprecio de mi ser. (Pausa) por mi indiferencia hacia los hombres y las cosas me he alejado de la sociedad en que viví. Ahora habito un mundo de fantasmas, prisionero de fantasías sin sueños.

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In this, the thinking proceeds from actual experience and not from analyzing the information packages presented in the works of others.

Apperception," as it is presently conceived, means "introspective self-consciousness," "the mind's perception of itself as a conscious agent," "a condition in which we are conscious of our own existence and consciousness of our own perceptions," "perception of the sum of things," and "the recognition of truths" [emphasis added].