Introspective Literature Quotes & Sayings

And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?
If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists. — Donna Tartt

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. — J.H. Wyman

Until the day I die, or until the day I can't think anymore, I want to be involved in the issues that I care about. — Janet Reno

What feels like such a painful loss now will become something beautiful later on. You cannot escape your destiny. You can certainly try. People do so every day. They hold on tight, and the river just dries up. — Elizabeth Lesser

Everything that man can imagine, he is capable of creating, — Thomas Sankara

The serpent tries to engulf my head. No, not a snake, an oxygen mask. — Andrew Davidson

Passes he stands for a moment close to us, as though illumined by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is. After — Albert Schweitzer

We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important. — Margaret Atwood

There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It's a risk you take. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless. — Nnedi Okorafor

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more. — Garry Hynes

Many science fiction writers are literary autodidacts who focus on the genre primarily as a literature of ideas rather than as a pure art form or a tool for the introspective examination of the human condition. I'm not entirely at ease with that self-description. — Charles Stross

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society. — Colin Powell