Quotes About Introspection

never underestimate your dumbness!!

A believer who has been giving in to the pull of his sinful heart never learns the extent of its power over him until he begins to do right. It is very much like the experience of one who is rowing a canoe. As long as he is going with the current, he has no idea how strong the current really is. Only when he decides to turn his canoe around and start rowing against the current does he experience its true strength.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outline of an old and worried face.

He was intelligent and he must have known that he would again be the only man in those lights with real bruises.

Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, "There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in some way.

You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.

Forget about what goblins would do. Forget about what an adventurer would do. I need to figure out what Jig should do.

Heart of Glass

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

Solitude is dangerous. It's very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is. It's like you don't want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy." – Jim Carrey

Might they one day reconstruct the ruins of the mind as well as those of the body?

He was about to find out that when you open a door with a psychiatrist's name on it, you'd better be prepared to witness exactly how fucked up your life has become.

How would the person I'd like to be, do the things I'm about to do?

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

We only meet the God within our true selves through suffering. We seek the wilderness because in this solitude we can hear ourselves more clearly.

I don't know a fucking thing. That must mean I'm finally sane and that's an excellent place to start going crazy again.

Maybe I wanted to be crazy so I wouldn't have to go through the normal rationalizations and self-justifications of unfettered indulgence.

Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.