Quotes About Introspection

Indeed there may be more: a chorus of me, the observed and the observers.

Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.

Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

Ser sociable es muy arriesgado, incluso fatal, porque supone estar en contacto con personas, la mayor parte de las cuales son aburridas, perversas o ignorantes, y sólo lo buscan a uno porque no soportan su propia compañía. La mayor parte se aburren a sí mismos y reciben a los demás no como a verdaderos amigos, sino como una distracción...

Only inferior minds speak or write in order to discover what they think.

La soledad es algo maravilloso (...), por dos motivos: primero porque le permite a un hombre estar consigo mismo; y segundo porque se libra de estar con los demás.

Por isso é muito melhor não ter amigos, desde que se tenha força de carácter suficiente para passar sem eles. No fim, os amigos acabam sempre por revelar-se um incómodo de uma maneira ou de outra. Mas, se tens de os ter, então deixa-os em paz e aceita que cada um tem o direito de existir de acordo com o seu próprio carácter, seja ele qual for.

Relationships don't only fail because the person you're with turns out to be the wrong person; they also fail when you yourself aren't yet the person you need to be.

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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

there are a few acts more aggressive than describing someone else

No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

The tragedy of contemporary philosophy is that it has been castrated.

In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.

Lately she'd been charting Bobby's moods like a meteorologist watching tropical storms. Something was bothering him, and he wasn't talking.

Men generally don't do any self-examining unless they get criticized by a woman first.

Knowledge of self is acquired through a shattered mirror. But we can always close our eyes.

Sometimes silence is the best question.

undeserved guilt is just another form of indulgent self-pity.

Knowledge of self is a precious commodity, dearer than the finest gemstone. The mirror I held before me now was not laced with gold filigree. It was cold and flat and bared every shadow on my soul.

Damn, a mirror can be a lethal weapon, and self-knowledge a poisoned pill. I had been a self-centered and egotistical jock with all the trappings of stunted male adolescence. Back then, I had yet to develop the empathy for others that marks the passage into manhood.