Quotes About Introspection

Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future.

We have been very brave, we have wanted to know the worst, wanted the curtain to be lifted from our eyes.

his skin barely keeping him inside.

I want to tell you this story without having to confess anything

Let's admit, without apology, what we do to each other. We know who our enemies are. We know.

I woke up in the morning and I didn't want anything, didn't do anything, couldn't do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush through me and it never made any sense, anything.

Hello darling, sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known.

Look back on the good, look forward to the future.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as which we close our eyes.

I have often lamented that we cannot shut our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.

In the age of AIDS I had been making it a practice to imagine a skull and crossbones on the forehead of every possibly available comely gay man I found myself alone with, but Slonski's kept fading in, fading out.

He looked over at me now, his eyes wet. "Will you come and lay down with me first?" "Well, gee, Lyle . . . gee. Actually, I think Miss Manners would advise against it. I mean, with my lover waiting down in the car and all. I think you have a good bit to learn about timing—about the social graces. I'm pretty sure we'd both feel very, very bad afterwards. Also, these days I'm a bit overextended in that department.

Sometimes experts say that their knowledge cannot be articulated, that it is 'gut reaction' or 'intuition'. But through introspection and with the support of 'knowledge engineers' (specialists in knowledge elicitation—see section 6.8), they often find that they are able to model their expertise.

So do yourself a favour. Go away and hide somewhere while you lick your wounds. Enjoy your friends and your family, and wait until you've recovered a bit before you start looking for a new partner. And when you do, try to pick someone whose scars are relatively well-healed too – because of course this works the other way round as well. That way you can both see each other as you really are, and start your relationship the way you want to continue it.

I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.

After a half hour of sitting and staring at Mister Lewis sitting on his box, Patrick heard the sound of an engine

The moral contradictions of our ancestry should not prevent us from reaching a realistic assessment of who we are. Whehn we do that, high hopes are still possible.

The moral contradictions of our ancestry should not prevent us from reaching a realistic assessment of who we are. When we do that, high hopes are still possible.

Actions born of contemplation are wiser than those made in quiet desperation. If all that's true, and I feel it is, then I have grown some in these 61 years. I have learned and become a better person. And from that maybe it's the years ahead that will be the richest of my life. A quiet man moving forward, gladly beyond all expectation.

I learned that I could draw the boundaries of my physical self inward, collapse the space I occupied and become a mote, a speck, an indifferent atom in its own peculiar orbit.

There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment.

Amid the slaps and pokes and guffaws that greeted them, I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are. I became drunk with that.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.