Quotes About Introspection

My son has taken up meditation - at least it's better than sitting doing nothing.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

No one can travel your own road for you you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems from my childhood. I grew up in a family with a system of religious beliefs handed down to me.

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Sometimes I like [being famous], sometimes I don't. I've always been a people watcher. I like to go to malls and just sit, and I can't do that very easily anymore.

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

Still, he couldn't reconcile with the way he felt every time their eyes met, a feeling he had never forgotten that resonated with his very being.

He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

And he kept himself captive of his imaginations.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.