Quotes About Introspection

Something was missing in my life—in me—and I thought writing could fill it or fix it, or cure me of myself.

Remember no one made you do anything. It's never anyone but you who does anything, and for that reason alone you shouldn't be sorry.

And after a time, I stopped struggling even internally against the prescribed quietness.

I came to see that Harrison wasn't my failed prince and I wasn't in his victim. He hadn't led me on at all; I'd led myself on.

I didn't answer him and didn't open my eyes, and there was a moment of perfect vertigo, when I heard the whooshing of the surf again and felt I was part of it, swirling with it and also standing still, swept up an sewn into the sea and into the universe, but also very, very alone.

We can only go to the limits of ourselves—I've learned that if nothing else. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.

A town like this feels so safe and apart from the outside world. You start to wonder if it's dangerous.

And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

She wouldn't have seen any of the dinginess, because no one ever does until they're on the outside of a place, looking in.

you can't really love other people well unless you are at home in your own soul. You will simply be too afraid.

It's not how you look, it's how you feel in the dark

There comes a time in every relationship when as far as a man is concerned everything that needs to be said has been said. Usually we women are too busy talking to ourselves to notice but, when we do figure it out, boy are we mad.

The most basic question of all cannot be answered: Who are you?

so he proceeded with great caution into an alien landscape of the mind and the mind's eye.

People did not really understand who they were until they had been tested, and then came the terrible surprise that they did not know who this new person was either.

O desabafo é uma coisa louca. Umas vezes é tímido, outras é ousado. Não gosta da solidão nem da prisão do peito. Abandona o profundo e corre na estrada de ar, invade os tímpanos alheiros e encrava-se nos sentimentos de outrém.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

Dear God, Tatiana prayed in bed that night, turning to the wall and pulling the white sheet and the thin brown blanket over herself. If You are there somewhere, please teach me how to hide what I never knew how to show.

Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?

When Tatiana had been a child in Luga, her beloved Deda, seeing her depressed one summer and unable to find her way, said to her, 'Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important - ask, what do you love?

She knew that alexander was sitting on the bench by the house slightly behind her, and that he was watching her. he was doing that more and more often. Watching her as he smoked. And smoked. And smoked.

No. You didn't start with me. I came to you because you already had yourself

Well, Alexander thought, any minute now, one of the girls he had carelessly discarded was going to come by the barracks with a gun and blow his brains out and on his tombstone the epitaph would read, "Here lies Alexander, who couldn't remember the name of any girl he had fucked.