Quotes About Soul-searching

Looking for who I am is who I am.

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find...

Does everybody have a point at which they have to look in the mirror and ask themselves some of the bigger questions? Is it possible to go through life without ever doing that?

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

Even if I were not able to find my sword, the pilgrimage along the Road to Santiago was going to help me to find myself.

It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.

She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.

We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall understand, oh maybe it will be on Hell's road that I shall be able to find what we need—but don't pull your hand away, even though I now know that the finding has to come on the road of what we are, if I can succeed in not sinking completely into what we are.

Only once did she ask a tragic question: who am I? It frightened her so much that she completely stopped thinking.

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I went in search of myself.

Troubled men both, he thinks, Wriothesley and Riche, and alike in some ways, sidling around the peripheries of their own souls, tapping at the walls: oh, what is that hollow sound?

I would say that you lost yourself along the way, but you lost yourself far before that,' the storm hag tells me as I pass her. 'Wake up, little bird.

was asking himself long before he'd

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

But the point was that I realized, on some level, that whatever a potentially 'lost soul' was, I was one -- and it wasn't cool or funny.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

Carl Jung said, "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

The eminent Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said this: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls." But he also said this: "Who looks inside, awakes.

Sitting there on the deck during intermittent periods of dozing I thought that it's really hard on a soul to admit how much of life we have spent being full of shit.

When you can't seem to find happiness or peace in either direction you turn, maybe its time for self evaluation.