Introspection Quotes

It was hard to understand a little and then walk away.

~ Rachel Joyce

In people like us, the craving is as strong as the craving for food or water, the yearning for touch or light or love. I was looking for something--a diversion, an occupation, an unwavering force--that would elevate me, that would lift me out of the melancholy dissection of my own interior geography that otherwise would have consumed me pitilessly, as it had my father. I wanted to fly above myself-- if only for a few hours--and look down in tranquility upon my life.

~ Ethan Canin

How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.

~ Stephen Richards

Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun.

~ Toba Beta

Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.

~ Yvonne Woon

There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

~ John D. Macdonald

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

~ Evelyn Waugh

It's raining outside. How did you get here? And how did you get to be twenty-eight?

~ Austin Grossman

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

~ Lewis Carroll

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.

~ Sherry Turkle

True peace is not found in external circumstances, but within ones own heart.

~ Graham Aitchison

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

~ Gail Carson Levine

Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's own private world of nonresistance, overwhelmed, like creeping ivy, our desire to know worlds beyond it?

~ Olivia Sudjic

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.

~ Bono

Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

~ David J. Greer

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?No sir.That bothers me.

~ Joe R. Lansdale

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

~ Junot Díaz

Without love benevolence becomes egotism.

~ Martin Luther King

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

~ Lawrence Durrell

It is good for society to have this introspection.

~ Jacques Verges