Introspection Quotes

“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Stop looking to the sky for answers. The light isn't above you. It's within you.”
― Elysia Lumen Strife, Shadows of the Son

“The ship and all in it are imbued with the spirit of Eld. The crew glide to and fro like the ghosts of buried centuries; their eyes have an eager and uneasy meaning; and when their fingers fall athwart my path in the wild glare of the battle-lanterns, I feel as I have never felt before, although I have been all my life a dealer in antiquities, and have imbibed the shadows of fallen columns at Balbec, and Tadmor, and Persepolis, until my very soul has become a ruin.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Ms. Found in a Bottle - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story

“Introspection never does blaming.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“But this is the power of storytelling, isn’t it? To make sense of the things we can’t figure out ourselves. We make up gods and monsters and origin stories and archetypes and tell each other it’s all explainable so we don’t have to feel the weight of the unknown. That’s the theory anyway. The practice is that we’re all so much better at seeing the faults of others, at watching them make their mistakes and judging from afar, our social telescopes so much more powerful than the microscopes we forget to use on ourselves.”
― Eda J. Vor, Fully Functioning: a postpartum descent into obsessive fangirling

“I, unlike the vast majority of people, do not find solitude intolerable. As a matter of fact, I enjoy solitude, so much so that there is no dead or living person whose company I preferred, would have preferred, or prefer over my own.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Friendship: A Satirical Essay

“Il vino è un grande pericolo specie perché non porta a galla la verità. Tutt'altro che la verità anzi: rivela dell'individuo specialmente la storia passata e dimenticata e non la sua attuale volontà; getta capricciosamente alla luce anche tutte le ideucce con le quali in epoca più o meno recente si baloccò e che si è dimenticate; trascura le cancellature e legge tutto quello ch'è ancora percettibile nel nostro cuore. E si sa che non v'è modo di cancellarvi niente tanto radicalmente, come si fa di un giro errato su di una cambiale. Tutta la nostra storia vi è sempre leggibile e il vino la grida, trascurando quello che poi la vita vi aggiunse.”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

“It is crucial we also think beyond workers' rights to confront a broader and more fundamental set of questions: What is so great about work that sees society constantly trying to create more of it? Why, at the pinnacle of productive development, is there still thought to be need for everybody to work for most of the time? What is work for, and what else could we be doing in the future, were we no longer cornered into spending most of our time working? [ch.one]”
― David Frayne, The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

“Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Gift

“I have no way to tell him of the cacophonous emotions jangling within me - to feel wired for others yet irrelevant; to need community but equally to be unable to find one; that cleaning, cooking, and caring for my family is a pleasure and a blessing, but it isn't the same as feeling connected to them; to do things for others isn't the same as being with them; that watching television side by side isn't always "spending an evening together." And that each year I feel gravity pull at my face, my breasts, my soul, and I wonder... I wonder what within me is compelling enough that anyone would stay with me.”
― Katherine Reay, The Printed Letter Bookshop

“The Poetry that Searches

Poetry that paints a portrait in words,
Poetry that spills the bottled emotions,
Gives life to the feelings deep inside,
Breaks through all the times wept,
To sweep you in a whirling ecstatic delight.

The chiseled marble of language,
The paint spattered canvas,
Where colors flow through words,
Where emotions roll on a canvas,
And it all begins with you.

The canvas that portrays the trembling you,
Through the feelings that splash,
Through the words that spatter,
All over the awaiting canvas.
Such is the painting sketched with passion,
Colored with the heart's unleashed emotions.

The poetry that reads your trembling heart,
The poetry that feeds the seed of your dreams,
That poetry that reveals light within rain,
Takes you to a place where beauty lies in stain.
The poetry that whispers-
"May you find the stars, in a night so dark,
May you find the moon, so rich with silver,
May you sip the madness and delight
In a night berserk with a wailing agony".
Such words that arise from spilling emotions,
So recklessly you fall, in love with life again.

So, you rise shedding your fears,
To chase after your dreams,
As you hear thunder in the rain,
That carries your pain,
Through the painting of words, colored with courage,
Splashed with ferocity, amidst the lost battles.
Such is the richest color splash in words,
Laid down on papers, that stayed so empty,
For ages and ages.

At times, you may feel lost,
Wandering homeless in the woods,
But poetry that you write,
To drink the moonlight and madness,
Poetry that you spill on a canvas with words,
Calls you to fall, for life again.

The words that evoke the intense emotions,
The painting that gives the richest revelation,
The insight that deepens in a light so streaming,
Is the poetry that reveals the truth and beauty,
In a form so elemental, in a way so searching,
For a beauty so emotive,
Which trembles,
With the poetry's deepest digging.

The words that take your eyes to sleep,
The poetry that stills your raging feelings,
Is the portrait of words that carries you,
In emotions bottled within, held so deep,
For an era so long.
Forgotten they seemed, yet they arose,
With the word's deepest calling,
To the soul sleeping inside.
The poetry that traces your emotions with words,
Is a poetry that traces your soul with its lips,
To speak a language that your heart understands.

The Ecstatic Dance of Soul
Copyright 2020
Jayita Bhattacharjee”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Nothing need be said; nothing could be said. There it was, all around them. It partook, she felt, helping Mr. Bankes to a specially tender piece, of eternity; as she had already felt about something different once before that afternoon; there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again to-night she had the feeling she had had once to-day already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that remains for ever after. This would remain.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“A mirror is fragile but not afraid of showing the truth.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Being yourself is the valuable currency than an exchange for being in character.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“This lockdown has enough me time to help you to get your life together. Refuse to come out of this lockdown being the same.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“We want to be forever occupied, and hence a majority of us choose to accept problems in our lives so that we remain occupied and can stay away from coming face to face with our thoughts in a state of isolation.”
― Rajesh`, Random Cosmos

“... 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.”
― Susan Cain

“By willingly confronting the darkest recesses of my being, I fear losing a precarious grip upon eroding sanity. By writing myself into an experimental state of mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion, I fear experiencing the wilting of personal endurance to face another day of introspective examination. One-step too far into the pitch-dark underworld of deconstructive self-scrutiny and a person might not survive. A person’s failure boldly to charge forward with all of their strength of mind when beckoned by the better angels of their nature might preclude that person from unraveling the very purpose of their being.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The first step to creating meaningful change is rooted in inquiry and introspection.”
― Melissa Steginus, Self Care at Work: How to Reduce Stress, Boost Productivity, and Do More of What Matters

“Black Friday doesn’t even cover love and happiness. They come from within and outside is without without the former.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Like a house that has a home and a river that flows, so does love become when you open you4 heart, even when the lights go out or the flow encounters rocks.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“As long as one does not mistake one’s net-worth for self-worth, it is okay to be a loser or a failure.”
― Achal Bakeri, CMD, Symphony Limited

“Some people have a seemingly quiet life but they are noisy inside. Some people have a seemingly busy life but they have a quietness within. To lessen the inner noise we can develop self-awareness, introspection, and stillness. We grow in solitude. We need quiet times. They make our life happier and less problematic. They move us closer to glowing health, agelessness, peace, prosperity, clear thinking, inspired ideas, harmonious and interesting relationships, and effective problem solving. They secure our personal and spiritual progress. As we become more conscious through the practice of quiet times, we progressively lose the problems of illness, stress, confusion, and relationship breakdowns. By having quiet times, we start to wake up.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“There has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality. What am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, Isn't it?. This thought comes to me very often. Alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. No sooner that i try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs” ”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“The problem with societal issues in general, is nobody really wants a solution because the answer to the problem involves introspection based, not by one's own subjective opinion, but by the objective moral truth from God.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl

“But you might stumble upon yourself one day. You might suddenly stop short and see yourself in a completely new light.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Kadang kita tidak harus menang untuk menjadi seorang pemenang. Bisa saja saat menang, kita malah menghadapi sebuah kekalahan besar. Lihatlah gambar besarnya. Ketahui kemenangan apa yang harus atau tidak kau dapatkan.”
― Lambertus Hermawan

“It is hard to locate the right memories for a beginning: to decide which ones are relevant to the overall picture. We always take ourselves back to the start to try and find out why things happened; to try and force some blame into some day or some month or into some half-shaded memory.”
― Grace Bowman, Thin

“Being yourself is the most valuable currency than an exchange for being in character.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“If you have a bad luck at the dawn, you had a bad luck. If you keep having bad luck all day, you are the bad luck.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words