Quotes About Introspection

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn't change a single thing.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

We know nothing. And just because you know something to be true at this moment in your life or you feel that it is true, you can never be sure of yourself.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.