Quotes About Introspection

Is there no way out of the mind?" Sylvia Plath

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Reading Schopenhauer when you felt melancholy was like taking off your clothes when you felt cold, but a line of his came back to me.

And Nora felt similarly, in that moment. Although she had only been left alone for an hour at this point, she had never experienced this level of solitude before, amid such unpopulated nature.

Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself that you were wrong about stuff.

Nothing makes you feel smaller, more trivial, than such a vast transformation inside your own mind while the world carries on, oblivious.

A veces los arrepentimientos no tienen ninguna base. Algunas veces son simplemente fake news

Saya sudah mengulur-ulur waktu menjadi dewasa, dan pikiran tentang kehidupan saya selanjutnya sebagai orang dewasa menaungi saya bagai gumpalan awan gelap yang sekarang mulai pecah dan menurunkan hujan

Andrea told me after that film that there was too much Matt Haig in Matt Haig. She was kind of joking but kind of on to something. So for me, anything that lessens that extreme sense of selfe, that makes me feel me but at a lower volume, is very welcome. (...) Travel has been one of those things.

When she thought about it – and increasingly she had been thinking about it – Nora was only able to think of herself in terms of the things she wasn't. The things she hadn't been able to become.

The quiet made her realize how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning. You heard something and you had to pay attention.

There was more to her than a flat line of mild to moderate depression, spiced up with occasional flourishes of despair.

The challenge is to find who we are amid the crowd of ourselves.

Free will might be overrated. 'Anxiety,' Kierkegaard wrote, in the middle of the nineteenth century, 'is the dizziness of freedom.

Kurt Vonnegut was right. "Reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.

WE ARE ESSENTIALLY alone.

You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.

When I am in a room with People," he wrote, "if I ever am free from speculating on creations of my own brain, then not myself goes home to myself: but the identity of everyone in the room begins to press upon me so that I am in a very little time annihilated.

artist   A human who notices the ridiculousness of being a human and paints, writes, builds, sculpts, films, acts, plays, sings, cries about it.

The trouble is our lives are cluttered. The challenge is to find who we are amid the crowd of ourselves.

It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren't really thinking. This is one of your barriers.' 'Barriers?' 'Yes. You have a lot of them. They stop you from seeing the truth.' 'About what?' 'About yourself. And you really need to start trying. To see the truth. Because this matters.

Existe la idea de que uno lee para escapar o para encontrarse a sí mismo. En realidad, yo no veo la diferencia. Nos encontramos a nosotros mismos a través del proceso de escapar. No se trata de dónde estamos, sino de adónde queremos ir.

C'è un solo cantuccio dell'universo che uno può esser certo di rendere migliore, e questo è il proprio io.

I am a waste of a carbon footprint, to be honest.