Quotes About Introspection

Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

Be humble in this life.

You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

I'd like my life back.

It's so important to forgive people for their wrongs in your own life because every bit of it was for a reason-it was to form the person that you are.

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.

I just can't get used to life.

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.