Quotes About Introspection

It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought. "Nothing," he said aloud. "I went out too far.

As I lay on the bed I could see the big mirror on the other side of the room but could not see what it reflected.

En það ver erfitt að viðurkenna hann sem drykkjuræfil, af þeim sökum hve fullkominn hænuhaus hann var.

Belmonte was no longer well enough. He no longer had his greatest moments in the bull-ring. He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.

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

Úr orðum mínum gerði hann þá eitthvað sem varð að afmá, og stundum helst sjálfan mig um leið.

You ought to write, he told himself. Maybe you will again some time.

You corrupt very easily, he thought. But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naïveté that you started with?

I lay awake thinking and my mind jumping around. Then I couldn't keep away from it, and I started to think about Brett and my mind stopped jumping around and started to go in sort of smooth waves. Then all of a sudden I started to cry. (27)

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Todo hombre que empieza a vivir de una manera seria por dentro, empieza también a llevar una vida más sencilla por fuera

Catherine saiu. Deus sabe que eu não queria apaixonar-me por ela. Não me apaixonar por mulher nenhuma. Mas Deus sabe que, apesar disso, me apaixonara, e agora ali estava na cama, naquele quarto do hospital de Milão, e passava-me pela cabeça toda a espécie de coisas, mas sentia-me extraordinariamente bem,... ------------------ O Adeus Às Armas, Ernest Hemingway

He was too simple to wonder how 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.

I drank a bottle of wine for company.

I tried to tell about the night and the difference between the night and the day and how the night was better unless the day was very clean and cold and I could not tell it; as I cannot tell it now. But if you have had it you know.

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

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.

Start by writing the truest sentence you know

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Me, Mr Wiggins. Me. Me to take the cross. Your cross, Nannan's cross, my own cross. Me, Mr Wiggins. This old stumbling nigger. Y'all axe a lot, Mr Wiggins.

My dear, do you want forgiveness … or an explanation?

not some thing we have. . . . Prayer has nothing to

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

It is defeat that strips you bare and forces you to see your truest self. Success allows you to maintain the illusion of who you are. It is in failure that you come to know yourself best. When you face defeat, all you're left with us yourself. It is then you will face your greatest battle.