Quotes About Introspection

When they hand me the trophy I think about vomiting into it

Me pregunto qué podría llegar a hacer en el tenis si tuviera acceso a esa rabia y fuera capaz de orientarla hacia el otro lado de la red. En cambio, lo que hago es dirigirla toda contra mí mismo.

I don't want to give voice to my problems, for fear of rousing them, making them pounce.

Life is a tennis match between polar opposites. Winning and losing, love and hate, open and closed. It helps to recognize that painful fact early. Then recognize the polar opposites within yourself, and if you can't embrace them, or reconcile them, at least accept them and move on.

Past and future monopolize the poet's sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call; where everything hanging from the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic; where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later be etched by a diamond.

if there is no feet at your feet, do not lift rocks at the side of the road.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Cel?lalt este alc?tuit din întreb?ri pe care nu îndr?zneÈ™ti s? i le pui... Iat? una dintre întreb?rile de nerostit: ce crezi despre mine? ?i totuÈ™i, ne petrecem timpul presupunând cum ne v?d ceilalÈ›i, imaginându-ne pe noi înÈ™ine tr?ind în mintea lor.

Fiecare noapte are acel moment de mare luciditate, de sinceritate nemiloas?, de care eÈ™ti ap?rat, de obicei, prin somn. Eu nu aveam, de data asta, nici o protecÈ›ie. Gândurile erau nude, ustur?toare.

Getting seasick?" the inspector asked him at one point. "No. Just sick of myself." "Why?" "Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit I am to go along with some of your brilliant ideas.

I could never dream of being cool.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

Lascia qui il rumore del mondo, per tornare al suono dei tuoi pensieri.

Mi chiedevo com'era possibile che le persone più vicine mi cambiassero davanti in modo così improvviso, senza che io avessi avuto nemmeno il tempo di capire che c'era una trasformazione nell'aria.

Non mi sembra affatto di essere meglio degli altri: è l'idea di vedere i miei difetti moltiplicarsi per centinaia di volte che accentua la mia insofferenza e la riflette tutto intorno.

I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.

I don't know how to act around anybody.

We tried to be all of the things ... we are not.

And when I have that feeling, that feeling like I need a handout, desperate, I want to pull my skin off and turn into dust.I want to throw myself back to the angels and tell them to start over,start over without me cause you put the screws in loose, you put the hinges in wrong.