Quotes About Introspection

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

I have oscillated between faith and doubt for many years but have come to accept that there is a force which I feel within but which I cannot explain.

Desde James Joyce, sabemos que a maior aventura de nossa vida é a ausência de aventuras.

But the longer a man grows in his own darkness, the more his outer form diminishes

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

Sometimes it was hard to discern judgment from coldness and self-absorption.

I'm wading in, but I'm not ready to fully immerse myself yet.

I feel rather blue to-night. I am a horrid little goose, I know - but the trouble is, I can't help being a horrid little goose.

When I am not reading Kafka I am thinking about Kafka. When I am not thinking about Kafka I miss thinking about him. Having missed thinking about him for a while, I take him out and read him again. That's how it works.

It's not that I don't understand why a person has to die, but rather, I don't understand why a person has to live, Baron Béla Wenckheim pondered

Bough of a tree to the rain . . ." he turns the phrase over in his mouth as if it were fine wine, trying to guess its vintage, realizing somewhat indifferently that it is beyond him.

What does it all mean? Am I a Gump, or am I a juggernaut?

To 'Know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment, which it has taken us, who are your elders, months to perfect.

Have you brains? Asked the scarecrow. I suppose. I've never looked to see. Replied the lion.

It was a terrible thing to do undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart.

I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such small things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is!

he painted my right eye, and as soon as it was finished I found myself looking at him and at everything around me with a great deal of curiosity, for this was my first glimpse of the world.

All the same, said the Scarecrow, I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.   I shall take the heart, returned the Tin Woodman; for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

I am afraid I shall never have any brains, after all!

Folks gener'ly gets stuck-up 'cause they don't know theirselves like other folks knows 'em.

Oh, what I know about myself isn't really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you'll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you'll think it ever so much more interesting.