Quotes About Introspection

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

You pick women who aren't good enough, and then you rationalize how they treat you rather than just telling them they aren't good enough for you.

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment. My

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back. —Maxwell Hill

This was also his MO. Excuses for his behavior so he wouldn't have to accept what he'd done.

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment

I've been to hell, and I didn't see any sign of God. After a while you stop looking. You figure it out on your own.

I'm just telling you that if you go and live alone on an island you won't find any answers. You'll just find yourself alone. Don't go to that island.

It has been suggested that the heart of sin is taking oneself too seriously.

if we really want to change the current course of our culture and challenge its guiding ideas, then we need to start with the author of that culture. That means examining man himself.

It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say, 'What's the matter with him?' I know. I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.

The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that's the last place they look.

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

Admittedly, spending an hour in the society of an onion may be something you have never done before. You feel, perhaps, a certain resistance to the project. Please don't. As I shall show later, a number of highly profitable members of the race have undertaken it before you. Onions are excellent company.

The skeptic is never for real. There he stands, cocktail in hand, left arm draped languorously on one end of the mantelpiece, telling you that he can't be sure of anything, not even of his own existence. I'll give you my secret method of demolishing universal skepticism in four words. Whisper to him: 'Your fly is open.' If he thinks knowledge is so all-fired impossible, why does he always look?

Kierkegaard's most remarkable and subtle observations, that life can only be understood backwards but must be lived forwards. I think it means you have to turn around and start walking backwards, facing the past, if the present is going to make any sense at all.

God and I have decided to ignore each other. It's for the best.

A man had to close his eyes to remain an optimist, and there was no honor in that.

Cómo se parece a mí ?pensó?, y, por fortuna, qué distinto es de mí.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

The eye should learn to listen before it looks.

Often, the person reaches a point where there is a choice between two conflicting interests: reducing the emotional discomfort or seeing what is really going on. The person needs to make a value choice at this point. Which is more important to you, seeing reality or feeling okay? Almost always, the person chooses to see reality, and therefore, to let the emotional chips fall wherever they may.

A poem… begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with. It is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.

Any eye is an evil eyeThat looks in on to a mood apart.