Quotes About Introspection

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

People have thoughts they'd sooner not have. It happens in life.

See into life, don't just look at it

The writer's life seethes within but not without.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

I'm a very sensitive person, and I feel what makes me vulnerable. But I see that as a good thing. I really enjoy experiencing all the different emotions in life.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.