Quotes About Introspection

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

I took some time out for life.

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

My life's a mess. I'm not afraid to admit it.

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you and I don't know myself and I don't know life, but I believe the answers are in this book.

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they'll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?