Quotes About Introspection

I have never been wise.

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

She did not understand why humans longed for so much intense contact. Were their own thoughts never sufficient for them? Why did they look for others to fulfill their needs instead of simply taking care of themselves?

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.

Não reconheci a minha voz quando perguntei ao mundo: 'Como pode a coisa mais difícil que já fiz na vida ser também a mais cobarde?

Vim a saber mais tarde que muitos homens vêem sempre a boa fortuna dos outros como uma desfeita contra si próprios.

Humanity has become a lonely race, and dangerously arrogant in our solitude.

Depois daquilo comecei a desejar esclarecer as coisas com o Bobo. Como um dente doloroso, remoí uma e outra vez o que lhe queria dizer.

Of all the people I could lie to, I'd always been best at lying to myself.

No. Not tonight. Not by impulse, not without thought, No. It did not matter what others did. She had to think for herself about such things.

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

That little knife of knowing stabbed into her at every step.

Then I thought about it and wondered if I would ever reach a place in which I ceased finding out how stupid I could be.

As we shouldered our packs and set off, I reflected bitterly that I had walked away from people I had known and cared about to avoid the very situation I was now in with comparative strangers. I wondered if there was any way to live amongst people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations

She felt silence growing in her. Sometimes it reminded her of a fast-growing ivy; silence covered her and cloaked her, and she suspected that one day she would smother in the silences Hest could create. It was an effort to break through that strangling quiet, but she did it.

FitzChivalry Farseer." I halted, frozen by the words. I turned slowly.

forgiven,' she said quietly to herself. She sounded ill with it. With an oddly gentle finality, she added, 'You

If I had met you for the first time tonight, I would have despised you. You put me in mind of Regal." "Did I? Well, perhaps that reflect my belief that there is something to be learned from everyone that we meet.

The years have come and gone in their scores of turnings, and night after night I still take pen in hand and write. Still I strive to understand who I am. Still I promise myself, 'Next time I will do better' in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a 'next time'.

In the space of a sundown, you show me the wide world from a horse's back, and the soul of the world within my own walls.

She loved to talk. All I need do was provide the silence.

You've the saddest song of any man I've ever known." The

I was just thinking of all the years and times when I've sat across from you, and wondered if I'd ever truly seen you at all.