Quotes About Introspection

Pero dentro de ella me sentí bien en el acto; creo que había olvidado lo bueno que era. O a lo mejor es que nunca había sido tan bueno, a lo mejor nunca había sentido tanto placer. A los cuarenta y siete años... La vida es extraña.

desde mi infancia, la idea que cerraba todas las discusiones, que ponía fin a todas las divergencias, la idea en torno a la cual había visto surgir con mayor frecuencia un consenso absoluto, tranquilo, sin complicaciones, podía resumirse más o menos así: «En el fondo, uno nace solo, vive solo y muere solo».

Já na manhã seguinte (...) entendi que uma parte de minha vida acabava de terminar, e era provavelmente a melhor.

It's hard to understand other people, to know what's hidden in their hearts, and without the assistance of alcohol it might never be done at all.

It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.

Var jeg i stand til at være lykkelig i min ensomhed? Det regnede jeg ikke med. Var jeg i stand til at blive lykkelig i det hele taget? Den slags spørgsmål tror jeg man gør klogest i at undgå at stille sig selv.

Para comemorar devidamente a reconciliação do homem consigo mesmo, é preciso antes de mais nada acabar com os mundos remotos, os céus e supostos lugares de residência das ideias, das essências, das divindades. Esses espaços são míticos, sonhados e supostos. Não têm nenhuma existência, a não ser fantasística.

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I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

le monde en général et deux membres de sa famille en particulier allaient voir qui il était et quelles que fussent leurs réactions il allait rester comme il avait décidé qu'il serait à tout jamais, dérangeant, provocateur et, s'il le fallait, seul.

With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.

Michelangelo Antonioni

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

talking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.

But secrets can also keep things precious. Private. That's what can be hard for people to understand. It can be nice to have something you don't share with the world." -Bridgette

I never knew there was a whole denomination as full of questions as I was.")

But I have nothing for her. Not a single idea. I'm not sure I have another book in me. In fact, I'm pretty sure I don't." "You said that after the last book." Tom took a big bite, chewed until he could talk again. "Maybe you should come back to church. Lots of ideas there.

Does talking to yourself in the voice of your fictional character count as being social?

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

memoirs are not open doors into another person's house. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your

I'm twenty-eight years old and I hate my life. I never have the time or the energy to work out how to change it. On Sundays I trail round a museum to keep warm, or lose myself in a library book, or fiddle with the wireless. But Monday's already looming. And always I've got this panicky feeling inside, because I know I'm getting nowhere, just keeping myself alive. Tacked