Quotes about Introspection

Live as if you living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

To have a good conscience can never be the basis of a morally good existence; it is, rather, the result.

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say "This is it"? My depression is a harassed feeling. I'm looking: but that's not it — that's not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?

Clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.