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Introspection Quotes

"I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival."
Alice Walker
"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him"
Soren Kierkegaard
"Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions"
Gustave Flaubert
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack."
George S. Patton
"No one can be completely happy with a want of wisdom "
Aesop
"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art"
Madonna
"The truth is when you’re struggling is the most important time to be honest with yourself."
Jennifer Lopez
"The totality of my discourse, a discourse which is in the end truly my own, concerns my own illness"
Michel Foucault
"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
Will Durant
"We can know only one thing: that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
Leo Tolstoy
"Silence is a lesson learned through life's many sufferings"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button."
Brene Brown
"In order to be an object of desire, it is necessary to get some distance from oneself"
Simone de Beauvoir
"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth and truth rewarded me"
Simone de Beauvoir
"I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it. I say, Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready."
Charles Bukowski
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