Quotes About Introspection

You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

He wanted to write about country so it would be there like Cezanne had done it in a painting. You have to do it from inside yourself... You could do it if you wanted to fight for it. If you'd lived right with your eyes.

You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.

What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gipsy obscenity? What are you doing?

We have to get used to the idea that at the most important crossroads in our life there are no signs.

He was not in love yet, but he realized that he was an attractive quantity to women, and that the fact of a woman caring for him and wanting to live with him was not simply a divine miracle.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after everyone else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

He smiled as only the truly shy can smile. It was not the easy grin of the confident, nor the quick slashing smile of the extremely durable and the wicked. It had no relation with the poised, intently used smile of the courtesan or the politician. It was the strange, rare smile which rises from the deep, dark pit, deeper than a well, deep as a mine, that is within them.

El hombre que ha empezado a vivir seriamente por dentro, empieza a vivir más sencillamente por fuera

I knew that now, reading it in the oversensitized state of my mind after too much brandy, I would remember it somewhere, and afterward it would seem as though it had really happened to me.

It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was.

I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.

I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat. It was one of those unsound but illuminating thoughts you have when you have been sleepless or hungry. Later I thought Cézanne was probably hungry in a different way.

You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment where I could not find you.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy, he said aloud.

But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy.

I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

But walking down the stairs feeling each stair carefully and holding to the banister he thought, I must get her away and get her away as soon as I can without hurting her. Because I am not doing too well at this. That I can promise you. But what else can you do? Nothing, he thought. There's nothing you can do. But maybe, as you go along, you will get good at it.

A töprengés éppoly veszedelmes, mint a félelem.

You know the only thing I've ever lost is curiosity, he said to her. You've never lost anything.You're the most complete man I've ever known

The old man drank his coffee slowly. It was all he would have all day and he knew that he should take it. For a long time now eating had bored him and he never carried a lunch.

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