Quotes About Introspection

Dans cette grande salle sans glaces, chacun d'entre nous devient le miroir des autres.

Mais surtout, nous éprouvions ce sentiment d'extrême liberté qui est l'apanage de ceux qui sont débarrassés de leur image et qui ont retire, du voisinage de la mort et de la cohabitation quotidienne avec la souffrance, cette distance avec ce qui rend l'homme si petit et si étriqué.

when we challenge our assumptions about the world—or even more important, when we realize we're making an assumption that we didn't even know we were making—we may or may not change our views. But even if we don't, the exercise of challenging them should at least force us to notice our own stubbornness, which in turn should give us pause.

If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

I thank everyone I don't love. They don't cause me heartache they don't make me write long letters they don't disturb my dreams I don't await them anxiously I don't read their horoscopes in magazines I don't dial their numbers I don't think of them. I thank them a lot they don't turn my life upside down.

I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it's an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it.

For always the man in whom thought springs up over thought sets his mark farther off, for the one thought saps the force of the other.

You write because the brain is an endless wilderness whose roughest terrain can only be traveled with a pencil.

There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

Character is what you are in the dark.

Writing is a lonely business.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Everyone has a watched life. Everyone is both the observer and the observed.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.

Im share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Life can only be understood backwards.