Quotes About Introspection

The basest of all human needs is the need to confide, to confess. It is the soul's need to go outside itself.

I cultivate hatred of action like a greenhouse flower.

Kimseyle alay etme, asla kimseyi gülünç duruma düÅŸürme, kalbinin en ücra köÅŸesinde bile yapma bunu… … Ä°nsan yaÅŸam? alaya al?nmayacak kadar hüzünlü ve ciddidir.

And there are many whose dullness and sameness of life is not what they wanted for their life, nor the result of not having wanted any life, but just a dulling of their own self-awareness, a spontaneous irony of the intellect.

Cada uno de nosotros somos dos y cuando dos personas se encuentran, se aproximan, se mezclan, es raro que las cuatro puedan estar de acuerdo. El hombre que sueña en cada hombre que actúa, si tantas veces se enfada con el hombre que actúa, ¿cómo no se va a enfadar con el hombre que actúa y el hombre que sueña en el otro?

The universe isn't mine: it's me. 139

I don't complain about the horrors of life. I complain only about the horrors of my life. The only important fact for me is the fact that I exist and that I suffer and cannot entirely dream myself out of feeling that suffering.

Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything? And

To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

and I weep over a dead life that I carry inside me and never lived.

I also have my crochet. It dates from when I began to think. Stitch on stitch forming a whole without a whole … A cloth, and I don't know if it's for a garment or for nothing. A soul, and I don't know if it's for feeling or living. What

To observe oneself as one observes nature; to gaze on one's impressions as one would on a field — that is true wisdom.

I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don't know where it will take me, because I don't know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I'm compelled to wait in it; I could see it as a social centre, for it's here that I meet others.

Así vivo, en visión pura, el exterior animado de las cosas y los seres, indiferente como un dios de otro mundo, a su contenido-espíritu. Sólo profundizo en la superficie y en lo exterior, y cuando ansío la profundidad la busco en mí y en mi concepto de las cosas.

I'm two, and both keep their distance – Siamese twins that aren't attached.

Eu nu m? plâng de lume.Nu protestez în numele universului.Nu sunt pesimist.Eu suf?r ÅŸi plâng,dar nu ÅŸtiu dac? ceea ce exist? în general e suferin??,nici nu ÅŸtiu dac? e omeneÅŸte s? suferi.Suf?r,îns? nu ÅŸtiu dac? pe bun? dreptate.Eu nu sunt pesimist,sunt trist.

En mi todos los afectos se muestran en la superficie, pero con sinceridad. Siempre he sido actor, y en serio. Siempre que he amado, he fingido que he amado, y lo finjo para mí mismo.

A doçura de não ter família nem companhia, esse suave gosto como o do exílio, em que sentimos o orgulho do desterro esbater-nos em volúpia incerta a vaga inquietação de estar longe

The vegetal academy of silences

Exist? destul? metafizic? în a nu te gândi la nimic.

Besides, what can I expect from myself? My sensations in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling … A sharp mind that only destroys me, and a ferocious capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained … A dead will and a reflection that cradles it

Cum eu mi-am luat visurile drept realitate ÅŸi mi-am tr?it cât se poate mai intens propriile-mi visuri,acestea au f?cut s?-i creasc? un spin trandafirului fictiv al vieÅ£ii mele visate.Asrfel încât pân? ÅŸi visurile mele îmi displac,c?ci le g?sesc tot felul de defecte.

I was not meant for reality, it was life that sought me out.

I like to think, because I know it won't be long before I stop thinking.