Quotes About Introspection

Si una mujer con el aspecto de la Venus de Praxíteles se hubiese apeado de una fuente para sentarse en mi regazo, ataviada un par de sandalias de fantasía y una sonrisa, la habría apartado y me habría alejado para rumiar a solas.

I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, "I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, 'I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

In the course of my fifty-six years I have had dealings with thousands of men of all sorts and conditions. I no longer have any curiosity about people.

What a useless life I had led. Often enough in hours of normal health I had debated the value of writing books. What did one accomplish by writing, what influence did one exert, what improvements did one effect?

Marile hot?râri trebuiesc luate de unul singur, în privinÈ›a asta nu pot fi de folos nici un maestru È™i nici o filozofie. În clipele de grea cump?n? omul nu mai poate face apel decât la propria raÈ›iune, la propria sa inim?, la propria sa persoan?.

there is a vast difference between talking about God and listening to a God who talks to you.

Later came the hard knowledge that no one can save you from yourself.

Quincy, boyfriends apologize, shrinks analyze. Which are you?

Feel your feels, as the saying goes. Except so many feelings are hard to take.

I've made my mistakes and taken my licks and I still think a quiet life is overrated.

We regard each other for a long moment. I can tell he has no more apologies in him, and I know I have no more forgiveness in me, so I guess that makes us even.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.