Quotes about Introspection

Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

I'm demonaic, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that's only calm to comprehend itself!

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

As a young man, I had a strong faith in God. It dwindled and I pretty much abandoned it when I went to college. Basically, what I tell everybody is what took over my life was my pride.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.