Quotes About Introspection

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.

Life is a mirror that magnifies. What we see 'out there' is only a duplication of what we are inside.

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

I'd wake in the morning, my head fuzzy, sometimes with someone I knew but who was a stranger just leaving, and realize I was one day closer to the end of it all.

May 6. No prott. But I have been having very odd thoughts.

Cultural indigestion, I tell you, the gripe in the bowels of your spirit.

it could take days before you knew that a Vegan round was germinating inside you, and weeks before your body began to blossom into death.

You never know every part of yourself because you never encounter yourself in all situations.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

As much as possible, allow yourself to be a raw nerve end that internalizes whatever is experienced in life.

Progress':a word to choke on, a word to discard and then pick up again, hurl it in the oven like coal, watch it spurl out its own name in black smoke from the chimney of the hunting lodge. I embrace it, and I repeat it, and yet I know no word I or any other human could use will ever be the right word.