Quotes about Introspection

Because I have time to spare, and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything of me. I don't have to prove anything. I'm not rushing anywhere; each day is a gift I enjoy to the fullest.

She learned to bear her troubles alone and with dignity, convinced no one was interested in other people's problems, and that pain borne in silence eventually evaporated.

I like fabrics, colors, makeup, and the routine of putting myself together every morning, even though I spend most of my time locked away in the attic writing. "No one sees me, but I see myself," my mother would comment philosophically

Carme told them she couldn't remember what she felt, but she realized it's hard to die, and to invite death is cowardice.

I'm fine here, Lenny. I'm discovering who I am without all my ornaments and accessories. It's quite a slow process, but a very useful one. Everybody ought to do the same at the end of their life. If I had any self-discipline I would beat my grandson to it and write my own memoirs. I have time, freedom, and silence, the three things I never had amidst all the noise of my earlier life. I'm preparing to die.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.