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1. “In reality you felt at the same time that he could not be friends, nor be really intimate with anyone, and that he could not be so, not because in general he was independent of other people, but because his whole being was for a time turned inwards upon himself.”
Ivan Turgenev
Isolation, Introspection, Friendship, Emotion, Solitude
7. “I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.” Anton Chekhov Discontent, Despair, Weariness, Introspection, Melancholy
9. “Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your failures. Know your fears. Know your irritations. Know your pleasures, joy and happiness. Know your mental wounds. Go deeper and examine every feeling you have.” Amit Ray Meditation, Self-knowledge, Journey, Introspection, Awareness
14. “Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.” Paramahansa Yogananda Introspection, Silence, Mind, Life Force, Divinity
33. “He’s like an old clock that won’t tell time but won’t stop neither with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm rusted silent, an old worthless clock that keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.” Ken Kesey Identity, Time, Existence, Metaphor, Introspection
37. “There’s long spells – three days, years – when you can’t see a thing, know where you are only by the speaker sounding overhead like a bell buoy clanging in the fog. When I can see, the guys are usually moving around as unconcerned as though they didn’t notice so much as a mist in the air. I believe the fog affects their memory some way it doesn’t affect mine.” Ken Kesey Memory, Perception, Awareness, Fog, Introspection
39. “Viv feels the hand go bloodless and numb against her neck; startled, she turns to look at his face. There is no expression at all. For a moment he is gone from his face, as though he had fallen somewhere inward, away from her and the old man and the fire, into a remote pool of himself.” Ken Kesey Introspection, Emotion, Connection, Vulnerability, Human Experience
Introspection Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “In reality you felt at the same time that he could not be friends, nor be really intimate with anyone, and that he could not be so, not because in general he was independent of other people, but because his whole being was for a time turned inwards upon himself.”
Ivan Turgenev Isolation, Introspection, Friendship, Emotion, Solitude
7. “I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.”
Anton Chekhov Discontent, Despair, Weariness, Introspection, Melancholy
9. “Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your failures. Know your fears. Know your irritations. Know your pleasures, joy and happiness. Know your mental wounds. Go deeper and examine every feeling you have.”
Amit Ray Meditation, Self-knowledge, Journey, Introspection, Awareness
14. “Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.”
Paramahansa Yogananda Introspection, Silence, Mind, Life Force, Divinity
33. “He’s like an old clock that won’t tell time but won’t stop neither with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm rusted silent, an old worthless clock that keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.”
Ken Kesey Identity, Time, Existence, Metaphor, Introspection
37. “There’s long spells – three days, years – when you can’t see a thing, know where you are only by the speaker sounding overhead like a bell buoy clanging in the fog. When I can see, the guys are usually moving around as unconcerned as though they didn’t notice so much as a mist in the air. I believe the fog affects their memory some way it doesn’t affect mine.”
Ken Kesey Memory, Perception, Awareness, Fog, Introspection
39. “Viv feels the hand go bloodless and numb against her neck; startled, she turns to look at his face. There is no expression at all. For a moment he is gone from his face, as though he had fallen somewhere inward, away from her and the old man and the fire, into a remote pool of himself.”
Ken Kesey Introspection, Emotion, Connection, Vulnerability, Human Experience
