Quotes About Introspection

he also thinks it's true of most people, that the best part of ourselves is trapped inside the worst part of ourselves and just can't manage to get out.

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

Your strengths are your weaknesses. The more you try to protect something, the more vulnerable you make it.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

There is nothing to facing your own fears. Confronting OTHER PEOPLE'S fears of YOU... that's the challenge and test of character!

And then there are the Odysseans. They form the middle ground between Dionysians and Apollonians. They tend to fluctuate between action and despair, between feeling and thinking. Most people are Odysseans.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

Probably nobody ever jogs toward the room where they will write their suicide note

I am cuckolding myself

But other things had added to Jerry's present weird mood, his new view of himself as someone who'd suddenly found he was in a six-foot-deep rut when all along he'd thought of himself as sailing.

Well, god damn it," Cayzer said. "Sometimes I don't know if I was stupid all my life or if I'm just getting stupid with old age. Come on along, you can ask them yourself.

since dispassionate self-knowledge is not a quality held in much esteem by the majority of the human race

Everyone who concentrates all day, in the evening needs to let the half-wit out for a walk.

I'm not responsible for what other people think, only for what I am.

So in his maturity—he was no longer young, but had lived a full circuit of the earth around the sun—he had dropped his Crustian name and chosen to call himself Gregor Samsa Ingledew, the full meaning of which was known, or appreciated, only by himself.

Then why were you

Elsewheres South The long green shutters are drawn. Against what parades? Closing our eyes against the sun, We try to imagine The darkness of an interior Where something might still happen: The razor lying open On the cool marble washstand, The drip of something--is it water?-- Upon stone floors.

Me había engañado pensando en que Shigeko era diferente, pero no. También ella era la vaca que da un latigazo fulminante e inesperado con la cola para matar a un tábano. Entonces supe que, a partir de ese momento, debería ser tímido incluso con aquella niña.

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

People who judge others tell more about Who They Are, than Who They Judge.

If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.