Quotes About Introspection

He was thinking that the young years behind him, hollow and colourful, had been lived in facile and vacillating cynicism upon the recorded emotions of men long dust.

he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.

There was something pathetic in his concentration, as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him anymore.

Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. The fibre of my mind coarsened and my eyes grew miserably keen. Life rose around my island like a sea, and presently I was swimming.

At first this quality of hers somehow irritated Amory. He considered his own uniqueness sufficient, and it rather embarrassed him when she tried to read new interests into him for the benefit of what other adorers were present. He felt as if a polite but insistent stage manager were attempting to make him give a new interpretation of a part he had conned for years.

Amory usually liked men individually, yet feared them in crowds unless the crowd was around him.

Sometimes I don't know if Zelda isn't a character that I created myself.

We'll all be failures? Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part. It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. This, too, was quite characteristic of Amory.

I talk with the authority of failure.

he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

There is a loneliness that only exists in the mind. The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their world fall apart and all they can do is stare blankly.

Az ember vagy megért mindent, vagy mindent magától értetÅ'dÅ'nek vesz.

and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior 'Hm!'.

As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad

The careless violins and saxophones, the shrill rasping complaint of a child near by, the voice of the violet-hatted girl at the next table, all moved slowly out, receded, and fell away like shadowy reflections on the shining floor - and they two, it seemed to him, were alone and infinitely remote, quiet.

Be', non sai mai esattamente che posto hai occupato nella vita degli altri.

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes. In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a streetlamp, he used to think that he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit that in.

He felt persistently that the girl was beautiful—then of a sudden he understood: it was her distance, not a rare and precious distance of soul but still distance, if only in terrestrial yards.

Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.