Quotes About Introspection

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Life is a state of consciousness.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

Life is a dead-end street.

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.