Quotes About Introspection

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

Alone! -- that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

The only guy I have to get better than is who I am right now.

Durant les longues nuits et les longues journées passées sous l'effet de la cocaïne dans la chambre de Yag, il me vint à l'esprit que ce qui importe à l'homme ce ne sont pas les événements survenus dans sa vie, mais seulement les répercussions de ces événements dans sa conscience.... ...L'homme vit donc non des événements du monde qui l'entoure mais des reflets de ces événements dans sa conscience.

try to understand that our souls work like swings: the stronger the push up towards the nobility of the soul, the stronger the swoop down towards the fury of the beast.

En ese estado febril, en el que otro, quizás, habría escrito versos, miraba atentamente los ojos de las mujeres con las que me cruzaba, esperando como respuesta esa misma mirada amplia y terrible. Nunca me acercaba a las mujeres que me contestaban con una sonrisa, pues sabía que a una mirada como la mía sólo podía contestar con una sonrisa una prostituta o una virgen.

In truth, doing does not determine being; rather, being determines doing. It is only after we have a firm understanding of who we are that we know what to do with life.

there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait.

The worst thing in the world is to be inside yourself, you don't even want to be rescued.

Wasn't that the terrible lesson of her life? Who can ever really know anyone?

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." —Søren Kierkegaard

In his heart, the joy of living fought with the hurt of it until he could no longer separate them, and the effort made him understand that they were not him. That he was apart from them, evaluating them. The

A lot of days I'm fine, but there are days where I'm convinced this is all crazy and I'm crazy and I can't believe I'm muddling through it. I'm still waiting to grow up, ariishir.

I had become comfortable with my own numbness; to suddenly remember I was male and not yet dead was a nuisance.

Maybe having a sex was like clothing, something to be donned over the deeper truth of being human.

Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life.

To paraphrase Montaigne—even when you're sitting on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your arse.

I like him and I wonder what I would be like if I had a different father.