Quotes About Introspection

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That is no doubt the disadvantage of having intelligent friends. They see straight through you.

Era la padronanza di sé che pietrificava e allarmava Pablo più di tutto, perché veniva dalla giovinezza e dalla bellezza, come quella che un tempo aveva conosciuto anche lui, e proprio per questo sapeva che non avrebbe conosciuto mai più.

To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time.

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

Where do you come from?" "From the planet of a distant sun, called Earth." "What for?" "I was tired of vulgarity.

He who studies himself at all is ignoble. Only by despising soul as well as body can a man enter true life.

Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

David Foster Wallace: It just makes me a person that's really exhausted a couple other ways to live, you know? And really taken them, taken them to their conclusion. Which for me was a pink room, with no furniture and a drain in the center of the floor.

wandering between two worlds, one lost, the other powerless to be born.

Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

Using one's own sexual mind as an infallible guide for inferring the sexual minds of others is an error.

If we don't get to the roots of our sins, we will just keep confessing the same old things unproductively forever.

I feel surpris'd at my own composure," he noted, "and am more disposed to impute it to despair than resignation.

Strange, isn't it, how one can always learn to love oneself, however ghastly one is?

It occurs to him that there are two kinds of people in the world --- those who long to hear God say their name, and those who dread it.

There is no room for God in a mind that's full of self.

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

No one ever said at the end of his days; 'I have read my bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul'

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.