Quotes About Introspection

to become conscious of what one is doing to earn his feeling of heroism is the main self-analytic problem of life.

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

Never, never tell them. Try and remember that. Never tell anyone anything ever. Never tell anyone anything again.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down a a typewriter and bleed. E. Hemmingway We don't write to be understood, we write to understand......... Love yourself. Dare to dream. Live on purpose!

I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.

You're awfully dark, brother, he said. You don't know how dark.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

Let's not talk about how I am. It's a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am?

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

I'm afraid of the rain because sometimes I see me dead in it.