Quotes About Introspection

Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page.

People say if you face your worst fear, the rest is easy, but those are people who are afraid of rattlesnakes or enclosed spaces, not of themselves and the horrible things they've done.

I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.

She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.

My mother was teaching me that the inside of something was not necessarily its outside. Always look carefully, she told me. Look with more than your eyes.

History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.

For a man tells you who he is the instant you meet him, all you have to do is listen.

Some people know the exact moment when they've lost everything. They can look back and see it plain as day and for the life of them they can't understand why they didn't spot the situation as it was happening.

Seeing has little to do with opening your eyes; it's what you feel inside that counts, it's what you know without anyone telling you.

Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn't really your own, and you've just sort of let things happen to you?

But at long last she had some privacy and could go more than ten minutes without someone getting in her business, informing her that everything she did was wrong. As if she didn't already know that.

Likely it was true that the flaws you saw in other women you didn't notice in yourself.

But rules were never the point. It was finding out who you were.

Someone killed himself because of me once, Meredith said. People kill themselves because of what's inside of them, not because of other people.

He carries books everywhere he goes so he won't have to be bored by people.

I take responsibility for the man I used to be, for I carry him with me. As strong as I am, he's a heavy burden

She wondered if dreamers knew they were in a dream while it was happening, or if they had no idea that everything around them was purely imagined until the dream had gone.

Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.

As Gary understands it, the greatest portion of grief is the one you dish out for yourself, and he and Sally have both served themselves from the same table tonight, the only difference being that he knows what he's missing, and she has no idea what is causing her to cry as she drives down the Turnpike.

I have wondered all my life what I am made of, if there is straw inside of me, or a beating heart, or if I simply burned for all I did not have.

Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn't that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own?

In doing so, he understood who he was. In that moment, in his aunt's greenhouse, he felt more alone than ever.

Nowadays, she doesn't even look in a mirror. She's afraid no one will be staring back at her.

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse. There was something that come between Emily and other people, a white linen curtain, hazy. It made the world quieter and farther away, although occasionally she could see through to the other side.