#Introspection Quotes

“I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.”

“Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.”

“I should be suspicious of what I want.”

“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.”

“Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.”

“A little while alone in your roomwill prove more valuable than anything elsethat could ever be given you.”

“What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.”

“If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.”

“Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.”

“One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.”

“Always check your inner statewith the lord of your HEART.”

“If you #‎ love love, look for yourself.”

“Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.”

“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”

“You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion”

“I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries.”

“It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.”

“Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.”

“Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.”

“Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.”

“Silence gives answers.”

“Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.”

“Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.”

“I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.”

“A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.”

“Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.”

“It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.”

“Fire is the most tolerable third party”

“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.”

“Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”

“Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography”

“I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.”

“Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.”

“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”

“It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.”

“I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.”

“My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light.”

“It is the evening that questions thus from within me.”

“Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.”

“What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?”

“We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.”

“I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”

“Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?”

“She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”

“Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.”

“We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!”

“Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.”

“When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”

“Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.”

“It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.”