Quotes About Introspection

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

All is going well, very well, I couldn't ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

You don't learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason to do anything.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

Jesus Christ, why dont you come save my life. Open my eyes and blind me with your light and your lies.

It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.