Quotes About Introspection

That was the depressing thing about knowing other albas. You realised that we weren't special. We weren't superheroes. We were just old. And that, in cases such as Hendrich, it didn't really matter how many years or decades or centuries had passed, because you were always living within the parameters of your personality. No expanse of time or place could change that. You could never escape yourself.

The quiet made her realise how much noise there was elsewhere in the world. Here, noise had meaning.

But writing down darkness didn't make me feel dark. I already felt dark. Writing things down brought that inner darkness into external light.

She took a deep breath, as if the question were something she had to swim under.

Nu pedepsesti pe nimeni in afara de tine daca tii ura inauntrul tau. Ceilalti sunt ceilalti. Tu esti tu.

Compare my life to the lives of other people.

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,' he said, wisely. 'You're quoting Camus.' 'You

I know my own face too well to actually see it. Familiarity could make you a stranger to

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them.

I know my own face too well to actually see it. Familiarity could make you a stranger to yourself.

Calatoria il face pe o, sa fie modest", a spus Gustave Flaubert. "Atunci iti dai seama cat de putin loc ocupi in lume.

Hasta el suicidio le habría parecido una medida demasiado «activa». Quizá en algunas vidas uno simplemente flota sin esperar nada más, sin intentar siquiera cambiar. Quizá así fueran la mayoría de vidas.

You know, the age thing. I have generally found men to be quite a disappointment. Montaigne said that the point of life is to give yourself to yourself.

Your self-worth is not found inside the minds of other people.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping. It is not where we are, but where we want to go, and all that.

silence   Humans fear silence. If you ever want to make one feel uncomfortable, stop in the middle of a conversation for no apparent reason. Then stare deep into their eyes.

I'm just a slow-emotion replay of somebody I used to be.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.

Loosely translated Der schlechte Affe hasst seinen eigenen Geruch means that people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.

people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own.

Something else that puzzles me about other people is that a lot of them don't know their purpose in life. This usually does bother them—more than not being able to remember being born, anyway—but I can't even imagine it. Part of knowing who I am is knowing why I am, and I've always known who I am, from the first moment.

As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while, and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.

reduced after that episode to admitting, "I'm

The kings of modern thought are dumb.