Quotes About Introspection

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

En verschrikt fluistert hij tot zichzelf: ik vlucht, maar vluchtend loopt steeds een barbaar voorop: ikzelf.

I wonder what they'd do if they knew the truth about my high life and my low life and all the demons in between.

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

When reading, one needs to remember that poets and philosophers are not prescribing courses of action but exploring aspects of existence.

Every woman occasionally wonders what manner of man she has married. No matter how long she has been living with her husband, once in a while he presents a new face. It's the bunk about women being enigmas and men being just transparent little boys at heart. Or else I'm gullible.

Aside from forest fire, there's nothing to be afraid of in the woods, except yourself. If you've got sense, you can keep out of trouble. If you haven't got sense, you'll get into trouble, here or anywhere else.

Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize.

I wasn't vulnerable to you, to what I did with you, because I had fallen out of love with Guy. I was weary, and if I fell out of love with anything it was with that competence of mine. I fell out of love with myself.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience...

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

I WONDER IF WHEN YOU DREAM ABOUT SOMEBODY THEY DREAM ABOUT YOU.

I feel all the same things when I do things alone as when Ole Golly was here. The bath feels hot, the bed feels soft, but I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

Harriet: How do you practice being an onion?

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy

It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't," I told him. "Why not?" "Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.