Quotes about Introspection

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I...

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.

Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, but that is all.

But Dick had come away for his soul's sake, and he began thinking about that. He had lost himself--he could not tell the hour when, or the day or the week, the month or the year.

I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.

My own rule is to let everything alone.