#introspection

Stranger: Do you believe in Jesus, my friend? Foreigner: O yes, I do but who the hell are you? ↗

— Toba Beta

#privacy #introspection

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress. ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#philosphical #introspection

The most introspective of hearts tends to be the most sentimental. We cling to the smallest moments from our past because we fear that emotion will never come our way again. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#sentimental #introspection

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#introspection

Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#rage #sweat #introspection

Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having--a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say.... ↗

— Nick Hornby

#reading #introspection

Așa-i de când lumea, că cine se introspectează prea mult, acela nu mai e de acord nici cu sine însuși, în cele din urmă, iar cine nu-i de acord cu sine însuși, acela nu-i capabil să ia o hotărâre. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#capability #decision #introspection #world #introspection

Introspection precedes constructive criticism. Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun. ↗

— Toba Beta

#introspection #introspection

But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#lem #self-exploration #solaris #introspection

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#writing #introspection