Quotes About Introspection

I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth

When I stand here in front of the cabinet, my heart feels like a silkworm slumbering in its cocoon.

När jag blundade lyckades jag få en starkare medvetenhet om tomrummet som uppstått i min kropp. Det var fyllt av fullständigt genomskinligt vatten och inte det minsta lilla minnesfragment fanns kvar där. Hans händer rörde idogt om i det vattnet, men det enda som kom upp var små bubblor. Bubblor som genast sprack alldeles ljudlöst.

and I found myself unable to resist turning around to see whether my footsteps were following me as I made my way across the field of white.

Within my roasting brain cells, the scraps of thought refused to cohere.

Sarashina Nikki

This visit by these two men made my pen go limp.

IT isn't good to talk much about the weather - weather is a highly personal matter

It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray.

As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling--the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.

history is like a mirror that helps you to see through yourself.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Bu pencere yaln?z. Bu y?ld?z yaln?z, masada unutulmu? bir c?gara gibi - tüten, mavi mavi tüten, tek ba??na. Ben de yaln?z?m, diyor adam. C?garam? yak?yorum, içiyorum. C?gara içip dü?ünüyorum. Yaln?z de?ilim.

You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?

But how can I accept blindness in order to be happy? How can a man turn his back on himself without coming face-to-face with his own negation? You can't water a flower with one hand and pluck it with the other. When you put a rose in a vase, you don't restore its charm; you denature it. You think you're beautifying your room, but in fact, all you're doing is disfiguring your garden.

Nous sommes aussi l'ensemble des fantômes qui nous hantent... nous sommes plusieurs personnages en un, si convaincants dans les différents rôles que nous avons assumés qu'il nous est impossible de savoir lequel nous avons été vraiment, lequel nous sommes devenus, lequel nous survivra.

il ne s'agit pas de laver son corps, mais son âme, jeunes gens. si vous êtes pourris de l'intérieur, ni les fleuves ni les océans ne sauraient vous désinfecter.

les hommes n'ont inventé dieu que pour distraire leur démons

une grande bibliothéque en merisier investit toute une aile . C'était notre coin intime;notre retraite dorée. Nous y venions parfois communier avec nos silences et recycler nos sens émoussés par les bruits de tous les jours. Nous prenions un livre ou mettions une musique ,et nous voilà partis . Nous lisions aussi bien que Kafka que Khalil Gibran et écoutions avec la méme gratitude Oum Kalsoum et ou Pavarotti..

Timpul se oprise pentru noi. Bineinteles, ziua continua sa fuga de noapte si seara sa ucida aurorele, dar,in ceea ce ne privea, lucrurile ajunsesera la capatul lor. O noua pagina se deschidea si noi nu figuram acolo. Ratacesc printre umbre si cenusa, de parca as fi o fantoma captive in ruinele mele. Eram convins ca imi pierdusem mintile.

J'avais un compte à régler avec moi-même. On ne fuit jamais soi-même. Je pouvais prendre tous les train de la terre, tous les avions, tous les paquebots, je charrierais partout où j'irais cette chose indomptable qui sécrétais sa bile en moi.