Quotes About Introspection

Gonna have to give myself a mental enema when we get back to the TARDIS.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

To struggle against one's own flaws requires constant vigilance, but when you struggle against other people's flaws, you have to move more carefully and slowly.

Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the Earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?

Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.

There are two men in me--one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second . . . the second?

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.

Nem akart most emberekkel találkozni. Talán érezte, hogy ? nem az.

I'd thought I'd felt like shit that day, but really I'd barely even entered the intestine.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

We are not born knowing how to understand and express what is inside our souls. That kind of knowing ourselves requires contemplation and reflection. We have to learn to notice and be aware of our internal experiences, to search our hearts and find words for what is inside us. Being fully known and understood requires that we say aloud to someone else what is going on within our souls.

did not blame others for his own stupidity; he learned from his mistake and became stronger for it.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

I was having a race conversation in my head.

Leander: "I've been dead for three days now. And you?

Bog o tebi nema pojma; on niti vidi tvoje namere, niti tvoje misli, ni tvoja dela. To što ti je an?eo došao u san i buncao, zna?i samo da nije imao gde da preno?i, a napolju je verovatno padala kiša. A što je kratko ostao, to je po svoj prilici jer mu je u tvome snu suviše smrdelo. Operi svoje snove drugi put...

We're always looking, but we never really see.

o silêncio é mais belo e consistente que muitas palavras

E já não era jovem. A gente sente isso quando as complicações se somam, as respostas se esquivam das perguntas.

Quando alguém permanece um bom tempo calado, se não estiver dormindo deve estar pensando no amor ou na morte".

Neither had realized the loneliness each had lived with for such a long time until the loneliness was interrupted by genuine affection.

He was suffering, and in a way, he could manage that; but he had caused others to suffer, and he did not know why he had to live now and recall the series of terrible choices that had not looked so terrible at the time. Was that how it was for most people?