425 Quotes About Introspection

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

Introspection never does blaming.

... a certain degree of introspection may help us age with equanimity. If the task of the first half of life is to put yourself out there, the task of the second half is to make sense of where you've been.

He had a vivid sense of roads forking, rivers branching, one of those moments where the life that follows cannot be as it might otherwise have been.

It is odd, the things that go through your mind during a war, the things that really get to you.

He was not accustomed to busying himself with introspection or self-analysis. In this way he was like most people who are rarely alone. His mind did not swing into action until some external force required it: a man or woman or some other element of his material life. He had surrendered himself to the busy current of his life, submerging himself totally in it. All he saw of himself was his reflection on the surface of the stream.

Beyond twilight comes a beautiful night, the kind of night the weary dream of. And to all my good friends, to those who have already gone to the back side of the mirror, I bow my head.

Now he was contemplating, impersonally and for the first time, the real heart of terror: being delivered to destruction with one's hands tied behind one's back.

El mundo era tan silencioso. Había una barrera entre el mundo y yo. Y pensé por un momento que el mundo nunca me quiso y ahora estaba tomando una oportunidad para deshacerse de mí.