Quotes about Introspection

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself…I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me…Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.