Quotes About Introspection

Perhaps she would never really know him. A year and a half ago that though would have been unbearable to her, but now she had learnt to live with uncertainty, even to love it.

I had to be alone to know we were so close.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

You can say anything against a man who praises himself, but a man who blames himself is invulnerable.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

Spend the second half of our lives working less about what we do and more about who we become.

Intellectual and ethical maturity can be measured in part by a person's willingness to engage in constant reflection on what he or she holds to be true and good.

I hate it when people repeat the last thing that's been said to them because they're too afraid to ask what the other person meant by it. "You want to remember this moment," I said finally, because when it comes right down to it, I'm a coward.

Antes que comece a fazer perguntas e a abrir portas que ficariam melhor se permanecessem fechadas, talvez deva pensar que talvez não goste muito do que acabará descobrindo.

Is it fun being you?

I am trying to penetrate the mystery of why I am as I am- what I am- I have done everything well and right- and it can't be wrong because it was right.

It was silence so dense that it ceased to be silence.

I've let it remain as it was to see what it is.

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

Looking through this intimate window, readers have a choice about their own lives. Will they guard their own internal landscapes or lay themselves bare for others to see?

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy and thought I had come to terms with who I am, but there's something in the process of writing that unlocks other experiences, other emotions and you have to be prepared for that.

Researching and writing my novel has taken me to some really dark places. It is when you are in these dark places that you can see: there is always hope, there is always love.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

I caught a glimpse of my shadow today. It's usually so hard to see because it always hides behind me. It's so much easier to see everyone else's.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

it) was like being under the sea, in aquamarine light. However bright or loud your surroundings, you were somehow always alone.

His own sterility was apparent to him and would soon, he felt sure, be visible to others. Curiously, he didn't feel depressed at the prospect. He was almost intrigued by the idea of giving in to his oddness, turning into one of those remote, ineffectual creatures, so warped by their solitude that they became distasteful to normal people.