Awareness Quote by Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings…

— John P. Marquand

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

“Self-reflection, the ability to make of his own deepest feelings an object which he could set before him and pay it tribute, and, in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

“He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed…

— Hermann Hesse

“At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of all which…

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting…

— Thomas Mann

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to…

— Elena Ferrante

“And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation,”

— Ben Lerner