Introspection Quotes

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard" "To live alone is the fate of all great souls." "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone." "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" "The more man alienates himself from the world around him, the more he alienates himself also from his own inner world" "I drink to make other people more interesting" "I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided." "Philosophy is its own time comprehended in thoughts." "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe" "The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy" "I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details" "Time is the substance I am made of Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire" "We never consider that the thing that is likely to cause us the most harm is the same thing that brings us the most happiness" "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" "The world is full of contradictions. We can only confront them if we can face up to them" "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself" "On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom" "I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face" "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things"