Quotes About Introspection

We must question every inner-belief we possess without fear or attachment.

Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.

Don't be afraid of the darkLook insideGrab your heartLet it shineIf it's dark outsideShine your light

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

Egotism fears its own self.

...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

For the discovery of self we have to overcome the fear of self, so as to find the marrow 'within' and disclose our 'true' self. ("Everybody his story")

When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.

If someone looks into your eyes, I read in a book one time, he'll see right into your soul. I didn't want anyone to see into my soul.

I am not afraid of anything in the world. But I'm afraid of myself, afraid of what I will be in the future.

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.

Tis only when faced with our own mortality that we truly realize what it means to be alive,

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

I waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didn't come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.

Hell is other people at breakfast.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.