Quotes About Introspection

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

No he sido yo quien ha roto tu corazón, te lo has roto tú misma, y al hacerlo has destrozado, de paso, él mío. Y la peor parte me toca a mí, porque aún tengo fortaleza. ¿Crees que me apetece vivir? ¿Qué clase de vida podrá ser la mía cuando tú...? ¡Oh, Dios mío! ¿Acaso te gustaría a ti vivir si te encerraran el alma en una tumba?

Le tengo constantemente en mi pensamiento, aunque no siempre como una cosa agradable. Tampoco yo me agrado siempre de mí misma. No hables más de separarnos, porque eso es irrealizable.

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering- and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one's interest was not in the chief consideration in the other's thoughts.

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

Un om înÅ£elept trebuie s? se mulÅ£umeasc? doar cu propria-i tov?r??ie.

he is continually among his books, since he has no other society.

It struck me soon, however, there would be more sense in endeavouring to repair some of his wrongs than shedding tears over them.

The longer he stood, the plainer his reflections revealed their blackness through his features.

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

I certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body,' she said; 'not exactly from living among the hills and seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end; but I have undergone sharp discipline, which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy, Mr. Lockwood.  You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of

Não sei como explicar; mas você e todo mundo sabe que há, ou ao menos deve haver, uma existência nossa além da nossa própria. Para que serviria a minha criação se eu estivesse toda contida em mim?

Deixe-me a sós, que preciso pensar; enquanto penso, não sofro...

I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Ocurre a veces que sentimos piedad por gente que ni para consigo misma ni para con los demás conoce este sentimiento.

Here! and here! replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and another on her breast. In whichever place the soul lives — in my soul and in my heart, I'm convinced I'm wrong!

Yo presumí que una persona que podía especular de antemano sobre el giro que daría a sus arrebatos de ira podría, de proponérselo, dominar también esos arrebatos.

Los soberbios dan pábulo a las propias penas.

No se de que estaran hechas las almas; pero la suya y la mia son iguales

They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.

Porque ni las miserias, ni la degradación, ni la muerte, ni nada de lo que Dios o Satanás pudieran infligirnos habría podido separarnos; lo hiciste tú, por tu propio pie. No he sido yo quien te ha roto el corazón, te lo has roto tú misma y de paso me has roto el mío.