Quotes About Introspection

the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don't! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

People often say that an actor 'plays' a character well, but that's an amateurish notion. Developing a characterization is not merely a matter of putting on makeup and a costume and stuffing Kleenex in your mouth. That's what actors used to do, and then called it a characterization. In acting everything comes out of what you are, or some aspect of who you are.

The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far in it.

Fucking hell. Shit sounds like I'm writing for ladies who lunch on Fifth Avenue. Unending vortex of ugly? Holy sensationalism, Batman! Who the fuck am I writing for? I could move in closer, get to the real Singer, but I'll just fail like every other journalist

When you come into the real truth about yourself, you realize that the only person equipped to handle it is you. Some men can't even handle that, which is why Bellevue always full.

You different, Lilith. You have more darkness 'bout you now. You turning into woman, Homer say to her. —Me turning into something, Lilith say.

Homer say, Pretty gal go a river and see herself in water. Pretty gal drown when she go down to kiss herself.

I like to believe that everything in my house, from towels all the same colour, to the coffee machine where I press one button, is there just to make my life simple, but I'm realizing that they are all there to make sure I don't think.

Can people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need not to be.

Miss Betsy is looking at me. Some jealousy sure, but every woman have that in them

Something happen when somebody tell you something about yourself even if you already know.

people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time, and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need to not be. I

No thought is wise just because you have it, girl.

It just happens doesn't it, some point where a man just start living all over you.

Your light blacker than black. I know you.

There is one, a girl, I know she hates me, and it bothers me, because I see with her eyes and she is right.

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means more to me than my life itself.

Some people have censored so much of themselves for so long that they forget what it is they do feel and think.

We deny responsibility for our actions when we attribute their cause to factors outside ourselves:

appreciation expressed in this form reveals little of what's going on in the speaker;

It is my belief that all such analyses of other human beings are tragic expressions of our own values and needs.

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. For as you judge others, so you will yourselves be judged

Don't just do something, stand there.