Quotes · Skopia

18 quotes

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Topic·Inner life✕clear

Speech · Autobiography and memoir

Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

Mark Twain's Autobiography · 1910

★ 6.2

To recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

De Profundis · 1897

★ 6.1

In the life of each of us, I said to myself there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Sarah Orne Jewett

1896

★ 5.3

Scripture · Religious literature

The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.

1st Chronicles 28:9 · 430 BC

★ 3.9

Personal journal · Philosophical literature

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations · 180

★ 3.9

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Daniel Deronda · 1876

★ 3.8

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1878

★ 3.7

There is no man, good as he may be, who, if all his thoughts and actions were submitted to the scrutiny of the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 3.6

There's nothing of so infinite vexation As man's own thoughts.

1612

★ 3.6

Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!

Jane Welsh Carlyle

1836

★ 3.6

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of Seven Gables · 1851

★ 3.6

Personal journal

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri-Frederic Amiel

1883

★ 3.6

Novel · Coming of age story

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

Demian · 1919

★ 3.5

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 2.3

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

Charlotte Bronte

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell · 1846

★ 2.1

Personal journal

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1847

★ 2.1

Children's book · Children's literature

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

The House at Pooh Corner · 1928

★ 1.9

If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed... There would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

1943

★ 1.8