Best Introspective Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Sometimes I think...I think I was never truly alive until I met you.”

“Funny how someone you thought of every waking moment for months, how a type of longing that was so significant it became a building block of your identity, eventually slips wholly from your mind.”

“She both wanted and did not want to be held, to be touched, to be comforted. She was afraid of wanting becoming needing. And she was afraid, so terribly afraid, that if she needed him, it would be the moment that he slipped away.”

“You can build walls in an instant. Taking them down again is the work of a lifetime.”

“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by the festival of living.”

“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by this festival of living.”

“I feel like there's a wall coming down, and I don't know why, and I don't know what's going to happen. I just know you're the reason for it.”

“She hadn't seen him in years, but everything that had ever passed between them - love and sex and rage and grief and anger and finally, horribly, indifference - was suddenly present, too. Surrounding them, ghosts. None of it ever goes away.”

“I missed a collection of moments, of movements, of body parts and gestures, of things she did and said. I had no idea if the sum of that was that I missed her as a whole, missed her as a person, but I craved the parts that made her who she was.”

“The love we can show two people can be immense and yet incredibly different.”

“With family you tend to take for granted the fact that they’ll always be there and that you’ll figure out how to get along somehow. [...] But it doesn’t work that way. You don’t have a family. You make a family.”

“Here's what they don't tell you. Love is alchemy. It is the belief that your time spent with this person is better than your time spent without them. Like alchemy at its worst, loving the wrong person can destroy you, piece by piece, until you are nothing but ash. And like alchemy at its finest, finding your soulmate can remake you, elevate you to your most perfect state. Often, you will spend your entire life searching in vain. And sometimes, you simply find out too late.”

“You want to drive it.”

“I get the feeling I’ve been waiting for this to start for a really long time.”

“If I could hold on to just this one moment. If I had this one moment, I feel quite sure I could find my way back.”

“I find that I’m excited to learn what my next purpose will be.”

“So runs this tale, like a stream into the sea, not to fade, but to change and to be free.”

“We are shaped by our pasts, not defined by them.”

“Maybe happiness only exists in fragments. Maybe it is only the absence of grief.”

“I drifted on life’s waves — from love to hate, from hate to a love learned the hard way.”

“Nothing is forever. Except atoms.”

“When we seek knowledge, we also must accept responsibility. Not just for how to use the knowledge, but for how the knowledge might change us.”

“Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.”

“Language allows us to communicate ideas and feelings that are not quite our own.”

“We always find it easier to define people by what they mean to others rather than who they are alone.”

“We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.”

“This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.”