Quotes About Introspection

he wonders frequently whether he is not without honour and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment and somewhat more significant than anyone else he knows.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remarks the futility of themselves.

Tell me. I'll believe it. I always believe anything anyone tells about myself – don't you?

I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into the picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when anybody does anything." "You don't want to do anything?" "I want to sleep

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!—yet

Books mean more than people to me anyway.

No, Amory objected. I've lost half my personality in a year. Not a bit of it! scoffed Monsignor. You've lost a great amount of vanity and that's all.

Te mondod folyton, hogy az embernek egyre több dolgot kell megismernie, és ha ezt abbahagyja, olyan lesz, mint a többi ember, és hogy addig kell elérnie valamit, míg ezt a folytonos megismerést abba nem hagyja.

No, I'm thinking about myself - my black old inside self, the real one, with the fundamental honesty that keeps me from being absolutely wicked by making me realize my own sins.

and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one and yet to avoid all eyes.

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Svatko o sebi misli da posjeduje barem jednu od osnovnih ljudskih vrlina, a ovo je moja: ubrajam se me?u malo poštenih ljudi koje sam upoznao u životu.

This isn't just an epigram – life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

But all I know – the tremendous importance of myself to me, and the necessity of acknowledging that importance to myself – these things the wise and lovely Gloria was born knowing, these things and the painful futility of trying to know anything else.

After the sureties of youth there sets in a period of intense and intolerable complexity.

Çok içen insanlar?n yan?nda ay?k kalmak her zaman faydal?d?r. Her ÅŸeyden önce dilinizi baÄŸlar, fazla gevezelik etmezsiniz. Daha da güzeli insan?n kendi kusur ve yanl??lar?n? örtebilmesidir, nas?lsa kimsenin sizi kimsenin sizi görecek hali olmaz. Zira görseler de umursamazlar.

Tell me about yourself." And she gave the answer that Adam must have given. "There's nothing to tell." But

His eyes were of a bright, hard blue. His nose was somewhat pointed and there was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking - and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us? - glances fall upon us, curious or disinterested, nothing more.

But I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - 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.

These people could appreciate me and take me for granted, and these men would fall in love with me and admire me, whereas the clever men I meet would just analyze me and tell me I'm this because of this or that because of that. —Anthony for the moment wanted fiercely to paint her, to set her down now, as she was, as, as with each relentless second she could never be again. What

Ta oli jõudnud ikka, kus surma ei peeta enam viirastuslikuks ootamatuseks, ja kui ta nüüd esimest korda enda ümber ringi vaatas ja kõrget ning nooblit halli ja halli kõrval teisi niisama luksuslikke ruume nägi, hakkas ta kurbusesse segunema aukartus ning uhkus.

unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many

tenho tendência para acautelar todos os juízos de valor, um hábito que me desvendou muitas naturezas curiosas, mas que também me vitimou com muitos aborrecimentos de morte. (...) na faculdade (...) era o confidente dos sofrimentos secretos de homens atormentados e obscuros. Não desejei a maior parte dessas confidências...