Quotes About Introspection

Cate stared intently at the land, as if trying to wring some knowledge from it, as if she were seeing it for the first time, although in fact it couldn't have been more familiar to her, the type of landscape against which she still judge all others.

It is a kind of geisha containment, a shutteredness, a withdrawal and negation. It's as if she is capable of sensing when people are on the point of knowing who she is and she sends them a subliminal denial.

But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality rather than confronting it head on, an idea so strange to me that I didn't fully comprehend it at the time.

Looking at someone in a negative way is like looking through a mirror

Although personal calling I sense—who am I? even if I am, I don't know.

Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.

Don't pay attention to those who offer too much.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

Now that we are all so smart, we don't easily find resolutions.

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

There are many secrets; don't try to resolve them all.

There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.

This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

You don't know anything, but I know even less.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.