Quotes About Introspection

I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.

Typing it was like cleaning a wound... I was picking all the grit and the smoke out of my mind.

If a conscience is living in a world defined by regrets, then yeah, I've got a conscience. My very first thought every morning is what I've done wrong. That

I learned, the field of interest was a man from Wales who could recognize all his sheep as individuals but couldn't recognize human faces, not even his wife, not even himself in the mirror.

This is really clear to me now. Ever since, I've never felt as tepid of this place as other people do. Everything seems like a long, improbable afterlife.

be patient and curious instead of instantly judgemental.

He perdido el buen nombre, la parte inmortal de mi ser, y solo me queda lo más bestial.»

They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.

I hadn't realized what a collage of mental disorders my whole life has been

I feel your scorn, and I accept it.

Handicapped with my own melancholy

But there's another story, A real short one, probably written on my grave: couldn't stay sober. Never liked himself.

Rather than say anything, I stood up and put my foot in the water, testing it. Testing the water, that is, not my foot. Though maybe it was my foot I was testing - whether it could tolerate the water's temperature. Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I had once thought strength of character was a hardening of oneself; an intricate protection system by which you reconciled yourself to the truths of life and learned to let them not bother you. But all systems of character building go right out the window when you find there aren't anymore truths.. or none you recognize.

It's easy to believe in yourself when you're lying, because you're talking about someone else

To, ?e milcz?, nie znaczy, ?e nie mam nic do powiedzenia.

Don't you know the name of your lonely, Walker?

Here I sat down and closed my eyes, tilting my face towards the sun and listening to the gentle lap of the blue water against the rocks. Perhaps it was my destiny, after all, to be always alone: that was the tragic, self-dramatizing thought that came to me, and in some paradoxical way it also brought me a kind of comfort, reconciling me to what seemed, at that moment, to be my essential nature: introverted, melancholy and solitary.

Billy might have known it for several months by now, and I might only just have begun to grasp it, but we had both come to the same realization: the realization that what we had to give, nobody really wanted any more

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

What you discovered about yourself in raising children wasn't always agreeable or attractive.

The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.

she was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring straight at her he had no idea what she really looked like.