Quotes About Introspection

books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.

i imagine therefore I belong and am free.

after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as well. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection....

Other countries may offer you discoveries in manners or lore or landscape; Greece offers you something harder—the discovery of yourself.

There is always a philosophy behind the misadventures of men, even if they are unaware of it.' And

only there, in the silences of the painter or the writer can reality be reordered, reworked and made to show its significant side.

He sits all day on the terrace of the Brokers' Club watching women pass, with the restless eye of someone endlessly shuffling through an old soiled pack of cards.

DüÅŸünürün görevi düÅŸünceler ileri sürmektir, oysa azizin iÅŸi susmak, bulduÄŸu ÅŸeyi söylememektir.

If you think of yourself as a sleeping city for example… what? You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living. Perhaps if I could die or go mad it would provide a focus for all the feelings I have which find no proper outlet.

for those of us who feel deeply and who are at all conscious of the inextricable tangle of human thought there is only one response to be made — ironic tenderness and silence.

And a flower, doesn't even know it's own beauty it's entire life. Sad, huh?

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

I miss the comfort in being sad.

When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.