Quotes About Introspection

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they're only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn't it? Everything else is artful.

is it not to the mercies of the eyes of others that we commit ourselves on our journey through the world?

I toppled off my pyrotechnic tiger and, as I plunge downwards, endlessly as Lucifer, I ask myself: "What is the most miraculous event in the world?" And I answer myself: "I am going to fall into my own arms. They stretch out to me from the bottom of the pit.

I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world.

you see everything as though your eyes are going to lapse into tears.

The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

What I do feel, really, is that I am a lot more ordinary than I thought. This probably only means I've come to terms with being peculiar; possibly, also, the time for existential leaps is over and I am myself, now.

Tus ojos verdes son una cámara de reducción. Si los miro lo suficiente, me volveré pequeña como mi propio reflejo, me convertiré en un punto y, después, me desvaneceré.

I say he had a propensity for 'finding himself in the right place at the right time'; yet it was almost as if he himself were an objet trouvé, for, subjectively, himself he never found, since it was not his self which he sought.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

He had been so well brought up, first by an autocratic mother and then by an autocratic wife, not to speak of a black period during which he had been brought up by both ladies, who sometimes used him as a pawn against each other and at other times joined forces to crush him, that he had a feeling of guilt on those very rare occasions when he set out to enjoy himself in his own way.

You all right?" Scott queried. "Sure.  Why?" "You're quiet.  That's not normal." "Just thinking." "Don't pull a muscle.

Siento una opresión en el pecho y en el estómago, unas terribles ganas de llorar que he estado dominando hasta hoy. No quería que los demás pensaran que no le agradezco a Dios mi suerte. Pero ese nudo que me crece por dentro y me ahoga, estalló esta mañana, cuando ya no podía más.

Tens una por terrible, i ho entenc, però hauries d'evitar justificar-te sempre darrere d'aquesta por.

No m'entenc ni jo mateixa, i és per això que ningú més no em pot entendre.

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

I am a mystery to myself.