Quotes About Introspection

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

If you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.

People might think it lonely living on my own nearly all the time, but I never found it lonely. I always had plenty to think about, and anyway maybe I'm not so good on people.

I shrug my shoulders an nod my head, but somethin down in me sinkin fast. I am jus a po ole idiot, an now I have got the whole human race to look after.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

We know ourselves only as far as we've been tested.

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Four billion people on this earth but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go by, never coming to mind and never really missed.

The heart is deceitful above all things, / And it is incurable; / Who can know it?" (17:9).

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

W polowie drogi mojego zywota posrod ciemnego znalazlem sie lasu. Las ten co gorsza byl zielony.