Quotes About Introspection

How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

Siempre es que, realizadas por otros, nuestras mismas acciones parecen más sucias

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

His eyes tight, his head angled in surmise, Karras rose and stared down at the priest, demanding huskily, "Who in the hell are you, pal? Who are you?" The soft

the meantime, I don't know who you are, but you

active catatonics. Among

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

William Roberts

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

...though many a gatherer has carried his basket through these diamond districts of the mind...

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

A writer lives at best, in a state of astonishment.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go?

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

What, really, do we do with our lives?

Musashi could teach his techniques and give advice, but in the end each disciple was required to assess his own strength, find his own Way, and make that Way truly his own.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.