Introspection Quotes

"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 wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen." "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" "The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence." "Pain + Reflection = Progress" "Even as a junkie I stayed true to my code – and this certainly wouldn’t have been a problem: I’d have taken a baby held it aloft and said ‘This baby has been sent to earth to destroy all babies’ and let it go back to its mother " "The city was so overwhelming it left you lost even from yourself" "Leisure is the mother of philosophy" "The things that we love tell us what we are." "Is there no way out of the mind?" "To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them"