Inwardness Quotes

“You're one of those who has to tune the world out and focus on one thing at a time. We have a word for that down here, women like you. Insiwa. Inside one. It means you live inside your head and to step out of it hurts like a caning.”
― Rivers Solomon, An Unkindness of Ghosts

“Politics is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know.”
― Karl Kraus

“For those of us without the strength or the insight to choose for ourselves such quiet, withdrawn places, failure is perhaps the best-trod route to inwardness.”
― Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life