Introspection Quotes

“wait for me in a song!
if you’ve come to dinner,
release your dogs,
pour the wine into the sky,
for all the longing ghosts
of the grapes (...)”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

“When we confront the essence of our desires and the void left in their absence, we step into the twilight zone in the tapestry of our emotional panorama. It's here that we come to a profound recognition: desires are not just fleeting whims but the very fabric that shapes our understanding of love and connection, inviting us to a deeper level of introspection and enlightenment. (“Crépuscule du désir “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I believe evil is a natural force, like a hungry virus, perpetually swirling through the air and seeking places to infiltrate. Most of us bar the door against it. Others welcome it in.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, House of Glass

“She wonders how terrifying it felt . . . looking at the sea, feeling like she was at the very end of it all. She wonders what it was that made her realize there was somewhere else to go.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“Above all, there was understanding. She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening " and Selected Stories: Microsoft Reader Level 5

“Words will always make more sense to the writer than the reader. It just means that, even though the reader may have suffered, they haven’t suffered like the writer.”
― Michael F Simpson, Sempiternal

“Was it true the lovely part of love only lasted a moment and the sorrow went on for a lifetime? [...] she always wished men and women would just be content talking about books and music and things.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius

“He saw the face that stared at him now, ugly, degenerate and old, and he knew that his life counted therefore as nothing, that no achievement lay behind him, no battle won, no beauty possessed; that Julius Lévy was a name already vanished and lost in the sky, that had never been, that would not go on; and he wondered if there was no continuation of life, not future, no treasure beyond the stars, and if in reality there was neither God nor man, nor any world at all.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius

“it's strange for me to think that people can know about me without me having met them. to remember me when I'm not there. to know i exist when im not standing infront of them. it seems even more strange for someone to want me to be with them when I'm not. and the most strange for someone to need me, to depend on me, to love me.”
― Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

“But this man passing by me now was nothing like my Daddy.”
― Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire

“Se pisa un pie con el otro, como si al tocar menos tierra del sótano estuviera menos encerrado en el. Cierra los ojos. Es mi superpoder, piensa: hacer una oscuridad aún más oscura que la que me rodea. Deja de llorar - EN LA TIERRA SOMOS FUGAZMENTE GRANDIOSOS”
― Ocean Vuong

“The silence between words often speaks louder than the words themselves.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“We’re all living in each other’s paranoia.”
― Randolph Leon

“What if those people could stand on the shore watching their wake wash a bit of the shore away? And what if each of us could stay put long enough to see the rippling trail of everything we did rolling out behind us? What if we stopped long enough to see the long train of unintended consequence fan out from every innocently intended thing we did?

A taste for the consequence, for what endures: Maybe then there'd be a chance for things to be different.”
― Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

“Some people vote for the party, some for the candidate, while there are some that vote for their belief or believing in the ideology. They all believe these are different choices, and that they have chosen wisely.”
― Ashutosh Joshi, The Politics Of Chaos

“Suo-san..."

"Hm?"

"What do I have to do to get a back as broad as theirs to shoulder as much as they do?"

"I don't know much about Kanji-san. But those two must have overcome all kinds of painful experiences. That's why their backs can be so big they can be so strong.”
― Satoru Nii, WIND BREAKER, Vol. 11

“We talk too much," he said with unwonted seriousness. "Clever talk is of no value whatsoever. One merely gets further and further away from oneself and that is a crime. One should be able to crawl right into oneself like a tortoise.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“You're so much like my husband was. A great deal of self-love, an equal amount of self-pity. He felt that no one loved him—he was certainly right about that as far as I was concerned—and he thought that gave him the license to love himself. And to pity himself at the same time.

Self-love is perhaps the greatest sin of all. It stifles the basic drive of man, which is to search for love until he finds it. Self-love is simply the easy way out; self-pity is the justification for it.”
― Hal Bennett, Lord of Dark Places

“I have no idea. But the real question is, how am I going to decide who I love if I don't even know who I am?”
― Jeneva Rose, It's a Date

“Southpaw Serpent by Stewart Stafford

She was a left-handed artist,
More paint on her face than on canvas,
'Here, take this,' she said to me,
'It takes you to the snake with the atlas.'

I grasped the nettle of her riddle,
An eyeball roulette elixir of time.
Each sandy step I took after that
Veered from horrific to the sublime.

I found myself at a beach house party,
Remorse coiled in laundry bags hissed,
They reeked of promise unfulfilled,
And of sweet opportunities missed.

Girls morphed into southpaw painters,
Pointing and urging me to go on,
A police raid, I fled to the rooftop,
As dawn cracked open the sun.

I frantically crafted glitter collages,
Kaleidoscopes of close friends and I,
The leftie girlie dyed her hair, judging,
The winner was a mirrored all-seeing eye.

© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The world is currently in a grieving phase. As you navigate the emotions it has created within our environment and outside of it, do not forget to sit with what it feels like to still have hope for the future.”
― Dhayana Alejandrina, Agridulce: poetry and prose

“True change doesn’t happen when the world adjusts to us; it begins when we adjust to the truth within ourselves and act boldly upon it.”
― Majid Kazmi, The First Dancer: How to be the first among equals and attract unlimited opportunities

“It is that I find myself in the center of deeply profound thought that leads me to think... Maybe I'm in the way; Or maybe, this center to which 'I am,' IS the way...”
― Elijah Santiago

“God’s word is a safe space for communication, correction, revitalization, restoration, preservation and validation. It establishes a fundamental basis for understanding the divine revelation.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes

“In the darkness, I light a candle so my demons will see me better, and know me by name.”
― Mr. Joshua Shaw, I Took a Plane to Die in Denver

“You never talk about your past with anyone. Talking just releases memories into the air, and they aren't really yours anymore, or they become changed or other people capture them and hold them prisoner. You want to keep them. The bad ones might infect someone.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

“When we’re trapped in a cell with nobody looking, it’s in our nature to break free.”
― Aaron Paul Schaut, Lover's Rock: A These Americans Love Story

“You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

“Life is just what it is. We accept it. We now reserve our ever-dwindling f*cks for the most truly f*ck-worthy parts of our lives: our families, our best friends, our golf swing. And, to our astonishment, this is enough. This simplification actually makes us really f*cking happy on a consistent basis.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck & Everything Is F*cked (2 Books Set) By Mark Manson

“People think that if they travel inwards, it will confirm their worst fears and then there will be no hope. You are not your worst fears. You are more than your best dreams.”
― Donna Goddard, Sonder: Spiritual Fiction