Quotes About Introspection

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.

I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

I don't think I have a sad life. I just talk about all my feelings and emotions.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

Olmo Panero a traversé les Pyrénées pour nous dire que les mots étaient des parenthèses de silence.

I usually won most of the arguments I held with myself in my head—

I know a lot of people who don't want to take responsibility for their lives. It's easier to blame somebody else when something goes wrong than accept their part in whatever happened.

You've always been fond of understanding people too well." "They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily.

His practice was to listen noncommittally with half his mind, while he allowed the other half to lose itself in utterly unrelated , often deeply lonely musings. From the speaker's perspective it was like sticking a lance into something again and again with no result...

Man is a foolish creature who wants above all to have someone else know about him.

The quietest of people have the loudest of minds.

Myself I must remake.

I call to the mysterious one who yet Shall walk the wet sand by the water's edge, And look most like me, being indeed my double, And prove of all imaginable things The most unlike, being my anti-self, And, standing by these characters, disclose All that I seek; and whisper it as though He were afraid the birds, who cry aloud Their momentary cries before it is dawn, Would carry it away to blasphemous men.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Meditation is a silent way of looking at resistance. You're not running away from it -- you're sitting with the resistance ... basically you're trying to follow the resistance. And I think that's very interesting.

I tried to go out into my time and to know, but I couldn't get any farther than the body of the woman beside me.

List 2: Write down everything in your life that you don't want, like more panic attacks, depression, or partners who are emotionally unavailable. Maybe you'd like to stop smoking, or overeating, or drinking. Be specific and personal. This is about you. This will be your "before" picture.