425 Quotes About Introspection

The beauty of the past lies in-between the perpetual unhappiness of the future and of those who live it.

An introspective person seeks to attain a pure state of consciousness by merging finitude in infinity and by expressing the rapture of the soul through the contemplation and adoration of beauty. In this brief interlude of time, I surrender to becoming a cog in the roadway, an insentient time traveler, a ward of eternity, a day-tripper, a nighttime dream weaver, a blip in the cosmos, a freebase glob of energy, an imaginable disk of bundled vitality that wants for nothing.

But darling yesterday I was a different person, today I see you for what you are.

There is no amount of bad karma that can compete with a contrite spirit and God's forgiveness.

During self-reflection, the realization came that revolution begins within.

By not letting me turn you into something you're not, you've helped me be more of myself.

Little parts of my heart break off then, for Finn, for Ruby, for Charlie, for me, for all the ways we've let ourselves become who people think we should be instead of who we really are.

If you are anything like me, you do a lot of listening to yourself everyday.

When was it exactly that I became… this? By small degrees, I suppose. One act presses hard upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then one day we look up and find we are… this.