Quotes About Introspection

It takes darkness inside of a person to see it in others.

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It's true that I've always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

Lane kept trying to find her happiness in men, but it didn't work. Is that something you relate to personally?

Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

Is it possible to cause so much misery to another human being, simply by being oneself? she wondered, feeling a reflection of that misery. No help for it; she must continue to be herself.

During Lent you have the opportunity to think about your life alongside the life of Jesus, inviting inward transformation and then outward action.

Luke gently criticizes people who pray, and pray, but who fail to open the gate, or to see the need at their doorstep.

Did you die last night only to be reborn with dawns light? Into this skin you wear. Eyes that can't see. Ears that can't hear. A mind that holds no truth. You died but forgot to leave. The past crawls into the present, birthing the future. Shell-shocked. Shell locked. And all the answers. On the inside. Your mind mirrors. A kaleidoscope. You inside you inside you.

Hell = "where we get rid of all the lies told to us. That's where we go and cry like rain. Mom, hell is where you go to see yourself.

We said nothing for several minutes. Our minds weighed like ripened fruit on the branch. When one is confronted by the mirror, the spirit trembles.

i too suffer from dreams.

Qué extranjera raza la de los adultos, la de los hombres y las mujeres. Qué extranjeros y absurdos, nosotros. Qué fuera del mundo y hasta del tiempo. Ya no eramos niños. De pronto ya no sabíamos lo que éramos.

Alicia en el mundo del espejo", pensé, más de una vez, contemplándome en él, desnuda y desolada con un gran deseo de atravesar su superficie, que parecía gelatinosa. Tristísima imagen aquella -la mía-, de ojos asustados, que era, tal vez, la imagen misma de la soledad.

I was a very solitary, introverted child who got punished by being sent to a dark room quite frequently. But you cannot imagine how much I enjoyed myself in that room, and how I would look forward to being punished, because it was there that I discovered the light of darkness.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.