425 Quotes About Introspection

If you dare to go deep and touch the edges of your soul, in that encounter you will realize that you are not made for an end. Rather, there is something that says that we are the stuff of beginnings.

If something is happening to you again and again, then you must be doing something wrong. Observe your pattern, what happens most to you is your consequences.

Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.

Say I hit your number, called you up, you’d wonder what the fuck, every one of youse, and your mouth’d go dry. Maybe you’re just some stranger I pocket-dialled. Or one of them shitheads from school I could look for. Any of youse heard my voice now you’d think it was weather. Or a bird screaming. You’d be sweating sand. Like I’m the end of the world.

I try to use words, whether in prose or poetry, that people can understand, that make them feel in an intense way. I'm a writer, that's what I do.

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.