Quotes About Introspection

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. Already

compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,' he cried, 'But that is all.

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.

as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested - interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end.

life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Cada persona se cree dueña de al menos una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta era la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que conozco.

Pero soy lento en el pensar, estoy lleno de normas interiores que actuan como frenos sobre mis deseos

He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so he read himself to death.

I'd rather look at all these famous people in—in oblivion.

I don't understand yet how it all happened.' 'Neither do I.' He smiled grimly. 'I guess these baby parties are pretty rough affairs.

There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.

Where are you from? inquired Anthony. He knew, but beauty had rendered him thoughtless.

Chacun se flatte de posséder en propre l'une au moins des vertus cardinales. Voici la mienne: je suis l'un des très rares hommes foncièrement honnêtes que je connaisse.

I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before. Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes. It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment

She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage.

Hello—what hotel is this—?

I don't believe there's any one alive who can contemplate themselves as an impermanent institution, as a luxury or an unnecessary evil. Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin—but they don't, even you and I….

Cada persona sospecha que cuenta por lo menos con una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta es la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que he conocido.

judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person

It was your little white soul I tried to keep near me- even when life was at its loudest and every intellectual idea of God seemed the sheerest mockery. - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benediction

Though she thought of her body as a mass of frailties, she considered her soul quite as ill, and therefore important in her life.

Tell me about it. Tell me about your private life, Baby, and your opinions. You never do - we always talk about Nicole.

And never be sorry--- thought Lois--- and never be sorry---