Quotes About Introspection

When I wake up, I wake up to something worse. It's the astonishment of being myself.

Yaln?zl?k mükemmel, hatta biraz sald?rgand? ve Dahlmann yaln?zca güneye deÄŸil geçmiÅŸe yol ald???n? düÅŸünebilirdi.

No necesito hablar Ni mentir privilegios; Bien me conocen quienes aquí me rodean, Bien saben mis congojas y mi flaqueza. Eso es alcanzar lo más alto, Lo que tal vez nos dará el Cielo: No admiraciones ni victorias Sino sencillamente ser admitidos Como parte de una Realidad innegable, Como las piedras y los árboles.

Como en los sueños, detrás del rostro que nos mira no hay nadie. Anverso sin reverso, moneda de una sola cara, las cosas. Esas miserias son los bienes que el precipitado tiempo nos deja. Somos nuestra memoria, somos ese quimérico museo de formas inconstantes, ese montón de espejos rotos.

Extrañaba muchísimo a sus amigos y sabía sin amargura que éstos no lo extrañaban, dada su invencible reserva.

ÎnÈ›elese c? nici un destin nu-i mai bun decât altul, dar c? fiecare om trebuie s? dea ascultare celui pe care-l poart? înl?untrul s?u.

So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Leer, por lo pronto, es una actividad posterior a la de escribir: más resignada, más civil, más intelectual

He realized that one destiny is no better than the next and that every man must accept the destiny he bears inside himself.

From the remote depths of the corridor, the mirror spied on us. We discovered (such a discovery is inevitable in the late hour of the night) that mirrors have something monstrous about them.

Dresser des listes est l'une des plus anciennes activités du poète.

El temor de lo crasamente infinito, del mero espacio, de la mera materia, tocó por un instante a Averroes. Miró el simétrico jardín; se supo envejecido, inútil, irreal.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Who knows what kind of loneliness is more agonizing: the one which befalls man when he casts his glance at the mute cosmos, at its dark spaces and monotonous drama, or the one that besets man exchanging glances with his fellow man in silence?

The efficacy of prayer consists in a cognitive-spiritual catharsis, which purifies man of the most hideous untruth and deception, namely, the pretension that he belongs to himself and that he is his own lord.

On attend quelque chose, et un matin on se réveille et on comprend. C'est simplement la fin qu'on attend.Selon Lisette, c'est ce que les gens à la télé appelle une dépression.

We all fight our own wars, wars for which we'll be judged. Some of them we fight in the forests close to home, others in distant jungles or faraway burning deserts. We all fight our own wars, so maybe it's best not to judge, considering it's rare we even know why we fight so savagely.

Suicide] is the essence of self-portraiture.

It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours." —

Muttering, rolling our eyeballs upward, we are becoming a new kind of bivalve

To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly.

A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.

We have, all of us, more reasons for staying than for marching. What's the point in marching if you are only going to catch up with a very sad tune?