Quotes About Introspection

I would have thought that you'd be tired of vomiting blood and going to therapy and the prospect of being a nervous wreck all your life. Trés masochistic.

Whether or not Yuki-san needs you, whether or not he needs Seguchi-san, or whether he needs anybody at all only he can say. And you won't know unless you ask.

There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Philip Murdstone sat considering the phrase 'depths of despair'. Its plural implied that there were, even now, levels of it he had yet to experience.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

A mirror has no heart but plenty of ideas.

it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.

our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

Hugh put one foot up on the parapet and regarded his cigarette that seemed bent, like humanity, on consuming itself as quickly as possible.

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Acknowledgment of error is not error. A person who sincerely tells the spirit that he did something wrong cannot be punished anymore. The wrong itself is its own punishment. Power

We may rely on others and turn to others for help, but ultimately our answers come from within.

She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can't get in and she doesn't come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time.

Sorry implies that if you could go back, you'd do things differently. We both know that you wouldn't change a thing.

My rear end was blood-raw from my so called brilliant ideas rebounding on me.

like a window had been thrown open inside my head and my heart, where there had been closed shutters before.

More and more I was beginning to feel like a spectator in my own life.

it any wonder I preferred the laughter of his house to the dignified silence of my own?

She looked up to stare at her reflection in the mirror, as if she'd never seen her face before either.

myself. I'd felt ashamed of myself a lot recently, and, if I'm honest, part of me resented Callum for it. I didn't want to feel guilty for just being, but that's how he was beginning to make me feel.