Quotes About Introspection

R?nile morale au particularitatea c? se ascund, dar nu se închid; totdeauna dureroase, totdeauna gata s? sângereze când le atingi, ele r?mân vii È™i deschise în inim?.

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.

In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.

Egotism fears its own self.

Each man is forever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

Everyone shuts himself up tightly within himself and insists upon judging the world from there.

When the inhabitant of a democratic country compares himself individually with all those about him, he feels with pride that he is the equal of any one of them; but when he comes to survey the totality of his fellows, and to place himself in contrast to so huge a body, he is instantly overwhelmed by the sense of his own insignificance and weakness.

Be grateful you're not a peeper, sir. Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses … Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

He had reached a dead end. He had been content to drift from moment to moment of existence for thirty years like some heavily armored creature, sluggish and indifferent.

Listen a me, all you! Listen, man! Gonna sermonize, me. Dig this, you!' He was answered with a roar. 'You pigs, you. You rot like pigs, is all. You got the most in you and you use the least. You hear me, You? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All of you. Every you....

You must own nothing but yourself.

To be lyrical you've got to stuff your ears up and keep other people out of your life- if you have one.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

To read is to ……….indulge yourself in mental masturbation.

Shift #5 for Seamus Heaney a box of coconut water two cans of coconut milk so many looking for help some people care when a poet dies a poem is a conscience a report card, a confession: today my lies were a motor that spun the Earth how can you get truth from a hill when I am the continent that drifts? how can I taste what I'm mourning when soon everything will be salt from the sea?

Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.