Quotes About Introspection

Okay,' I said. 'So if I were to stop walking-while-reading, and hands in pockets, and little night torches, and instead looked right and left and right again for dangerous, unscrupulous forces, does that mean I'll end up happy?' 'It's not about being happy,' he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I've ever heard.

I suspected that if I kept up this curtailing, this cauterizing, all the distrust and systematic removal of myself from society, by age 20 it was more than likely I'd be at the stage of no longer opening my mouth to anyone, anywhere at all.

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She swallowed, sent him a wild look, and rushed out. The slam of the door echoed through the empty corridor as she collapsed breathless against the wall outside his room. In a futile attempt to quiet her galloping heart, she pressed one trembling hand to her heaving chest. What in Hades must Lyle make of her bizarre behavior? He must think her raving mad. Right now, she was inclined to agree. Charlotte

I'm beginning to think there's no such thing as a man worth the air he breathes.

The total of what you are is so much greater than what you see reflected in mirrors.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Then everyone leaves, and you are left, each night, to your own devices with a crowd of interesting people - most of whom you don't know - sitting in the dark.

We can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all of the time.

So much of love is curiousity, a search inside the other for some little piece of self; emerging from the bear cave of them with your birthday candle and filament of ore: the same as that I'm made of!

Though it is the hardest thing, to work out one's weight and heft in the world, to whittle down all that I am and give it a value.

What chutzpah, to write my life story at forty! Or a bad omen. Perhaps, having written it down, I now feel the life is done. Dora would have made me snap out of it. There are some people just the thought of whom makes us behave better. [Toller]

But I must say it has been, in general, a boon not to have been a beautiful woman. Because I was barely looked at, I was free to do the looking.

it wouldn't take much for the sorrow she felt at the sorrow she caused to drown her again

si être intello ça veut dire aimer s'instruire, être curieux, attentif, admirer, s'émouvoir, essayer de comprendre comment tout ça tient debout et tenter de se coucher un peu moins con que la veille, alors oui, je le revendique totalement : non seulement je suis une intello, mais en plus je suis fière de l'être... Vachement fière, même...

Et puis nos certitudes ne tiennent jamais debout. Un jour on voudrait mourir et le lendemain on réalise qu'il suffisait de descendre quelques marches pour trouver le commutateur et y voir un peu plus clair...

Se pasó todo el trayecto pensativo, contemplando la noche por la ventanilla... Se había enamorado.

Was this my afternoon away from the funny farm where I lived during the rest of the week?

P?d?jo reizi, kad apsk?v?mies, es vi?u nosk?pst?ju. Tas bija Flandrijas ielas lift?. Vi?š ??v?s. K?d??? K?d?? vi?š ??va sevi sk?pst?t sievietei, kuru vairs nem?l?ja? K?d?? d?v?t man savas l?pas? Un rokas?