Quotes about Introspection

You think sometimes I dont listen. I think you listen. I'm not so sure what you hear.

He found Reese asleep in a wrecked car behind the cabins. Suttree shook him gently awake into a world he wanted no part of. The old man fought it.

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

Instead of her soul swaying with new life, it seemed to droop, to bleed, as if it were wounded.

The shame, the roused feeling of exposure acted on his brain, made him heavy, unutterably heavy.

The shame, the roused feeling of exposure acted on his brain, made him heavy, unutterably heavy.

That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.

The more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone.

The army leaves me time to think, and saves me from the battle of life.

You can't lose yourself, neither in woman nor humanity nor in God. You've always got yourself on your hands in the end: and a very raw and jaded and humiliated and nervous-neurasthenic self it is, too, in the end.

You can't lose yourself, neither in woman nor humanity nor in God. You've always got yourself on your hands in the end: and a very raw and jaded and humiliated and nervous-neurasthenic self it is, too, in the end.