Quotes About Introspection

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

A story about my life would be utterly dull.

I know I'm not perfect & will never become. Yet, I'm proud of being Me, with all humility & imperfections. Cause this is the only life I have.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow.

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.

I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.