#introspective quotes

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When I'm alone, I realize I'm with the person who tried to kill me.

John Mulaney, Baby J

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Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? Isn't that your worst fear?

John Keating, Dead Poets Society

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Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along-- the same person I am today.

Orson Scott Card, on Ender's Game

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From somewhere, something kind asked: "Would you like to go back? It's completely up to you. Your body appears salvageable." No, I thought. No, thanks, I've had enough.

George Saunders, Escape from Spiderhead

[hopesanddreams15]

"And what is it you plan to do? What exactly are you here for?" "To see with eyes unclouded... by hate."

Ashitaka, Princess Mononoke

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No one ever told me that grief is felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the same yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it so hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be around me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

[hopesanddreams15]

To sit alone or with a few friends, half-drunk under a full moon, you just understand how lucky you are; it’s a story you can’t tell. It’s a story you, almost by definition, can’t share. I’ve learned in real time to look at those things and realize: I just had a really good moment.

Anthony Bourdain, in his final interview

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"And what if I no longer enjoy the things I used to love?" "Then find new things. Don't live out of habit; live out of choice."

Richard Siken, a tweet