Inward Quotes
476 Inward quotes by 347 unique authors
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Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
— Carl Jung
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A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is:…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by.…
— Maeve Brennan
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The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the first time in…
— Gerald Morris
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want,…
— Quentin Crisp
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Depression is anger turned inward.
— Sapphire
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Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.
— Etty Hillesum
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When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.
— Jodi Picoult
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None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom,…
— Gaston Leroux
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Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life…
— Kate Chopin
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He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He…
— Lee Child
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...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No…
— Susan Cain
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The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a…
— Richard R. Nelson
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Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is…
— Deepak Chopra
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I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble…
— Susanna Kaysen
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For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.
— Henry Miller
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We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear…
— Terence McKenna
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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home…
— Gregory Maguire
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And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig.…
— Louise Rennison
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Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a difference as wide as the sea. We are today overrun…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the…
— Andrew Weil
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All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
— Watchman Nee
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For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at…
— John Berendt
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Who Wrote These Inward Quotes
347 authors contributed a total of 476 Inward Quotes, led by these top contributors: