Quotes About Introspection

I've never had a very great public life.

We can only know others by ourselves.

I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

Look at your life as a patient and a doctor!

Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

Life changing repentance begins where blame shifting ends.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

Art is life, life is art - the question is what came first?

I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life.

Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

Who we are looking for is who is looking.