Quotes About Introspection

How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity.

But I know many things I can't say.

A man must learn to recognize values.

You, you, he raged at himself. Yes, you. You told yourself the first time you saw him that when he would be friendly would be when the treachery would come.

write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda

E nisto consiste a moral: coisas que fazemos e das quais depois sentimos repulsa.

Scott was a man then who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty... The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.

You know I do know how he feels. He can't believe it didn't mean anything.

No," Pablo said, dipping up another cup. "I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

I suppose it is just the loss of the immortality, he thought. Well, in a way that is quite a lot to lose.

Listen, Jake, he said, are you really a Catholic? Technically. What does that mean? I don't know.

On his way back to the living room he passed a mirror in the dining room and looked in it. His face looked strange. He smiled at the face in the mirror and it grinned back. He winked at it and went on. It was not his face but it didn't make any difference.

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If the other fishermen heard me talk aloud, they would probably think I'm mad. But since I'm not, I really do not care

you have to discard the old moralities, values and belief structures, you have to look for what is authentic in yourself.

all good things come from what is inside you.

You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are. You are doing all right at that here.

I would always rather not know. Then, no matter what can happen, it was not me that talked.

So we sat and thought deeply for awhile.

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.

Why did you do it? — I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do we have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?

But you haven't got the boy, he thought. You have only yourself...

I drink to make people more interesting, Ernest Hemingway.