Quotes About Introspection

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

The fathers greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

right now,I am my father

People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

Father Lucifer, you never looked so sane.

When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego suddenly shrinks because you are so touched by the dimension of your surroundings.

My taking a seat on the Council of the Fathers caused a desperate fluttering among my ghosts.

I would like to understand my father.

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.

Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.

Despite my vanity, I fear for my sanity.

My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.