Quotes About Soul-searching

Once again, a pang of conscience tweaked the skin around my eyes.

Without going within, I go without.

El suicidio más acostumbrado en nuestro tiempo consiste en pegarse un balazo en el alma.

Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.

On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.

I didn't ask what I could call you,

Knowledge of self is a precious commodity, dearer than the finest gemstone. The mirror I held before me now was not laced with gold filigree. It was cold and flat and bared every shadow on my soul.

He had had an inkling, even then, that only by losing himself, the well-behaved Connecticut boy he'd always been, might he ever hope to find his other, truer self.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?