Quotes about Introspection

They taught me to pay attention, but not so much attention to my tiny princess mind.

I felt that in my strange new friends and in certain new books, I was meeting my other half. Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.) I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

Writing can give you what having a baby can give you: it can get you to start paying attention, can help you soften, can wake you up. But publishing won't do any of those things; you'll never get in that way.

You unconscious can't work when youare breathing down it's neck. You'll sit there going, Are you done in there yet? Are you done in there yet?. But it is trying to tell you nicely, Shut up and go away.

The best reason someone talks about you is because they're actually talking about themselves.

It is much more difficult to deal with the truth about your life when you have no idea that you have feet of clay and it suddenly begins to rain.

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.

I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

The instructor is always silent when the test is given... ...When God is silent in your life... You are being tested.

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.