Quotes About Introspection

The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

To be an adult is to be alone.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

You may find a myth that will evoke the reality in you

One friend experienced enormous dukkha when she realized that men no longer looked at her when she walked down the street.

It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is going to grow into a woman, not a man.

To be an ignorant man, to posses nothing but a fragile word, to find oneself as if relying upon darkness and nothingness: that is the position from which one must be constantly setting out.

Conner thought he understood how pride could back up in somebody, get turned around and come out as meanness. But that didn't make it any easier to put up with.

Sometimes she thought she was mostly a collection of minor talents.

The artist on art. How do you get your ideas for stories Mr. Valentine? Well, I simply exploit everything I come into contact with. One ended, of course, by losing all spontaneity. You saw people as characters, sunsets as an excuse for similes -.

When we think about an economic problem, the first answer that occurs to us is not always the correct one.

academics must maintain a delicate balance between necessary humility and the determination

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

I almost wish that anyone were here, so I could just talk about anything. I know Harry used to accuse me of being anti-social (because of my not liking parties and shutting myself away painting), but it is a very dreadful and isolating experience not to have exchanged one single word with another human being for as long as I have.

I keep thinking what a lot I missed out on through being so introverted. I am not referring to sex but all the other things. Being sociable, I suppose.)

Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.

Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life - written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?