Quotes About Introspection

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

My life is full of broken halos.

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.

When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.