Quotes About Introspection

Suddenly all I had were questions.

However quietly the gods speak, you will hear them. Be patient. They will tell you everything you want to know. All you have to do is listen.

Nicht der fernste Mensch ist uns das größte Geheimnis, sondern gerade der Nächste.

Wenn man nicht mehr weiß, was man sich und anderen schuldig ist, wo das Gefühl für menschliche Qualität und die Kraft, Distanz zu halten, erlischt, dort ist das Chaos vor der Tür.

was it they who were flawed, or was it he?

the difference between the tolerant and the extremist was not so great. "Looking into the Other, we can always find something of ourselves within.

Since the future's so iffy, I'll turn my attention to the past.

Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.

Potom zamru svi zvuci, svjetla se zamra?e, a njegove o?i sklope, i njemu se u?ini kao da po?inje neki film...

He lifted his head and let it thud several times to the floor. Maybe that would send Reason whimpering back into its cave.

We are always beginning to live, but are never living.

Man is never truly wise until he has fathomed the riddle of his own existence

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

A turbulent emptiness seized the people as they moved into a post-Christian, post-Enlightenment era. No one any longer knew the direction of the river of life. No one had anything to say.

Poema de beco Que importa a paisagem, a Glória, a baía a linha do horizonte? -O que vejo é o beco.

Desencanto Eu faço versos como quem chora De desalento... de desencanto... Fecha o meu livro, se por agora Não tens motivo nenhum de pranto. Meu verso é sangue. Volúpia ardente... Tristeza esparsa... remorso vão... Dói-me nas veias. Amargo e quente, Cai, gota a gota, do coração. E nestes versos de angústia rouca Assim dos lábios a vida corre, Deixando um acre sabor na boca. - Eu faço versos como quem morre.

Eu faço versos como quem morre.

El col·lapse d'unes esperances antigues i juvenils, d'una il·lusió en darrer terme desinteressada, havia matat en ell tota vel·leïtat de rebeldia.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

Y ella no tiene frío? —No, no se acuerda del frío, está como en otro mundo, ensimismada dibujando a la pantera. —Si está ensimismada no está en otro mundo. Ésa es una contradicción. —Sí, es cierto, ella está ensimismada, metida en el mundo que tiene adentro de ella misma, y que apenas si lo está empezando a descubrir.

A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.

Leggere è un vizio solitario e innocente

Durante la infancia yo confundía estos parajes terrenales con los pliegues de mi propio cerebro y desde aquellos días de inocencia no me ha abandonado la idea de que la vida de los hombres no es sino un nudo de aromas que se va deshaciendo ante la muerte.

Past, present, future: where are you?