Quotes About Introspection

He went out the front door. The sun was blinding after being in the dim house. He walked back to Perry's car, feeling like a boat without a rudder, trapped in a current. He had no place to go and no idea what to do.

Solitude was a spell that freed her.

She gave me the serious goldfish face, then went back to staring at her dress.

The two men shook hands, then the cowboy walked through the main gate to an anonymous Buick and drove away. Watching

Meryl Lawrence was in her mid-forties, with sandy hair and the trim, sturdy build of a woman who took care of herself. She wet her lips as she stared at the phone, thinking, and finally glanced up. "What

Jonathan Green nodded again, then stared at the far wall for what seemed like several minutes. No one moved, and no one spoke. All of the other attorneys stared at Jonathan as if he might suddenly utter some dictum and they would have to act on it. Apprehensive.

Pike's mouth twitched, and Cole wondered if Larkin had noticed that Pike never laughed or smiled. As if the part of a man who could feel that free was dead in Pike, or buried so deep that only a twitch could escape.

I left them to their lives and walked out into the sun. You want to do the right thing, but sometimes there is no right thing to be done.

Am I the kind of person I want my eternal companion to be?

FOR THE REAL ADVENTURE of travel is mental. It is about total immersion in a place, because nobody from any other place can contact you. You are alone. Thus your life is narrowed to what is immediately before your eyes, making the experience of it that much more vivid and life-transforming.

Like all wise men, he thought tragically: for we create moral standards in order to measure our own inadequacies.

Sometimes our questions are better left unanswered.

We realize it is in those quiet moments that each of us has the ability to make our lives extraordinary.

There comes a time in every man's life," he'd said in the halting, ghostly voice his stroke had left him, "when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.

Permanecer en silencio es algo más que no hablar".

La mayoría de las personas no entiende el perdón. Siempre se piden perdón unas a otras, cuando lo que cada una de ellas necesita es perdonarse a sí misma por haber creado una situación en la que es necesario el perdón.

Un pensamiento puede llegar a ser un sentimiento y un sentimiento puede llegar a ser un pensamiento.

Por que você sempre responde com outra pergunta? E por que você sempre busca nos outros as respostas às suas perguntas?

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly height, A luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.