Quotes About Introspection

You first have to find who you are. Then, you have to be it like mad.

If there were no applause and no criticism, who would you be?

You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.

Now I've done and said all I can do and say. I've come to the end of my personality, and now if I want anything it's peace, quiet. The ability, the opportunity to stay in my room and just stagger on. I suppose what I want, in a way, is death.

It doesn't matter what other people think of you. What matters is what you think of yourself.

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to a mountain of self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused, hurt and hungry ...

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

The very purpose of existence it to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think of us.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

The search for a life-style involves a journey to the interior. This is not altogether a pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call "the trouble with you." Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

No es necesario decir todo lo que se piensa; lo que sí es necesario es pensar todo lo que se dice.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

Je montrerai comment ce peu de bruit inérieur qui n'est rien, contient tout, [...] comment un cerveau isolé du monde peut se créer un monde.

I am the only guinea pig I have.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

We ask to know the will of God without guessing that his will is written into our very beings.'26

A minor physical problem is producing a few symptoms. You become introspective and oversensitive to these sensations and then become anxious. Your heightened awareness and concern produce an increase in discomfort. If this continues, you can turn an insignificant physical problem into major psychological distress.

The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise them. Your face approaching ever so friendly is the white flag they ignore. There is no truce with the furies. A mirror's temperature is always at zero. It is ice in the veins. Its camera is an X—ray. It is a chalice held out to you in silent communion, where gaspingly you partake of a shifting identity never your own.

To piss across water is to piss across your reflection

Era imposible de explicar, ni siquiera a Anna, que sentirse solo no tenía nada que ver con la soledad, sino con el espíritu, y que por esa misma razón esa sensación se veía agravada a menudo estando en compañía.