Quotes About Introspection

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

comme il allait de con en con Il devint terriblement triste comme il allait de con en con Terriblement triste

Tout ce qui n'est pas moi est incompréhensible.

Il a l'âme bouleversée de ceux qui furent élevés à se taire.

If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

Why is it, Mr. Poe, that I would sooner spend an hour with you in the"—again she laughed—"in the gloomiest contemplations than spend another minute speaking of dresses and baubles and the things that make most people happy?

loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity. Looking

I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain.

Jak to wyrazi? Carl Jung: "Pogód? si? ze swoim smutkiem, bowiem w nim wzro?nie twoja dusza".

Maar nu ben ik heusch zoo dwaas niet meer: ik hoû alleen veel van lezen en is dat nu zoo 'esthetisch'?

Plotseling omhuiverde Lucius de heilige vrees voor Wat Is Geweest. En kwam hem klein voor, zijn eigen leven en leed...

dat een mensch meestal beter is, dieper denkt, edeler voelt dan hij schijnen laat in de iederen-daagsche banaliteit van het leven, die hem dwingt zich te bemoeien met nietsjes en woorden, ieder ogenblik.

Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

La jeunesse est un temps merveilleux qui aboutit presque toujours à une trahison de soi-même dont on ignore comment elle s'est faite, et dont le reste de la vie se passe à contempler les conséquences dans un consentement dont on ne s'étonne même plus.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

A filosofia começa no momento em que cessa o divertimento.

Corner Seat Suspended in a moving night The face in the reflection train Looks at first sight as self-assured As your own face - But look again: Windows between you and the world Keep out the cold, keep out the fright; Then why does your reflection seem So lonely in the moving night?

And at this hour of the day it is no good saying 'Take away this cup'; Having helped to fill it ourselves it is only logic That now we should drink it up.

The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions.