Quotes About Introspection

As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Seated one day at the organ,I was weary and ill at ease,And my fingers wandered idlyOver the noisy keys.

Alles, was der Mensch tut, unvollkommen ist. Aber wer will sich schon seine Unvollkommenheit eingestehen?

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

I'm beginning to grow into who I thought I might be.

shrug. I don't feel that. I'd settle for being ignored, left alone, unjudged. Unharried. I just want to live my life. I don't need anyone to understand it. 'Do you think? It strikes me as the ultimate in self-absorption, hoping for understanding from others to give meaning to your life. Get over yourself, I say.

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

Why could I not have been born a hundred years ago? I used to ask myself. Somewhere about the time of the Wars of Liberation, when a man was still of some value even though he had no 'business.

Now for the first time I learned to know men and I learned to distinguish between empty appearances or brutal manners and the real inner nature of the people who outwardly appeared thus.

In scrutinizing the past, we must be careful not to be overly impressed by external results that readily strike the eye, while ignoring the less visible causes of these results.

Each only hears the sound to which his innermost is attuned. Speech of September 3, 1933 in Nuremberg

I'm in the reservation of my mind.

I do worship ancient hungers and chains dripping blood, but I am so tired of the taste of my heart.

When you point a finger at someone, always remember that three fingers are pointing back at you.

The darkness keeps its own counsel.

Unlike everything else in these pages, my sketchbook was never intended for any sort of publication. In fact, it was never really meant to be seen by anyone. It's the closest thing I have to a diary, and it exists mainly for my own amusement, practice and mental health.

The lonely feeling comes from not feeling known.

You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life" Margot said. I smiled at her, not fully understanding what she was saying but feeling a small ping of comprehension, an olive pit smacking the wall of my consciousness. "You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself" Margot promised.

Does your life feel authentically your own?

Books will change your lie, Rennie... you have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life' Margo said... 'you can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself'...