Patricia Briggs Quotes

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

I am not really a problem personality.

What happened was, when I got into the brawl in Detroit, I was transitioning into a different type of person, that person that I've become, but that game had so many emotions involved.

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

Many of us have a need to be right. We then set out to make ourselves right by making someone else wrong. We must get right with ourselves. Once we do, we will have so much to do, we will not have time to keep track of who is wrong.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.