Quotes About Soul-searching

Psychology—that was one thing I knew. You don't try to scare people in broad daylight. You wait. Because the darkness squeezes you inside yourself, you get cut off from the outside world, the imagination takes over. That's basic psychology. I'd pulled enough night guard to know how the fear factor gets multiplied as you sit there hour after hour, nobody to talk to, nothing to do but stare into the big black hole at the center of your own sorry soul

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou find'st there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

Chapels are emergency rooms for the soul. They are the one place we can reliably go to find who we are and what we should be doing with our lives—usually by finding all we aren't, and what is much greater than us, to which we can only give ourselves up.

Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

No» sibilò. Con la voce che gli risuonava nel cranio decise di ascoltare se stesso. Basta. Doveva chiuderla lì. Molto tempo prima aveva perso la testa per quella persona. No c'era motivo di perdere anche l'anima.

What the hell are you doing, Evelyn?

Así es la noche, y eso produce. No puedo ofrecer más que mi propia confusión.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

How else, except through being alone for a while, could you ever discover who you really are? But

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

maybe the best way to change your life is to look inside yourself. But that's harder to do, isn't it?

Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.

After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.

We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

I'm sad, uneasy. I look with awe on my life and soul. Nothing satisfies me.

He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at a time, because when a poem spoke to him it was as if a brilliant, agonizing light had been turned upon some tiny, private cell of his soul.

does a lost soul help lost souls?

Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.

oh, mi angustia..., ¿qué haré contigo, conmigo mismo?

Have you listened to your heart?

You said you've changed...But I'm just wondering if you really have. If you've, you know, looked inside yourself to figure out what you need to change.

I would take a free and hopeful breath. It was settled. Fear would no longer be the weakness that undid me. I was seventeen and unsophisticated, and thought I could dig about in my soul for the mettle I needed, and that it would be enough.