Quotes About Introspection

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

You need to know what you are before you can become what you are supposed to be. In order to know what you are now, you must learn what you are going to be.

I don't know who to write to anymore... They've changed their souls, that's a way to be disloyal, to forget, to keep talking about something else.

From beginning to end, we are all alone.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.