Quotes About Introspectiveness

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I am not a savior.

If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.

Il n'y a pas eu de jour dans ma vie, si plein et si heureux fût-il de la présence des êtres ou d'un être, et de mon adhésion riche et exubérante au monde immédiat, où je n'ai songé à la solitude, où je me sois arrangé pour lui faire la libation de quelques minutes, quand ca n'eût été que dans les cabinets, une cabine téléphonique, une salle de bains, un couloir où je m'attardais un instant plus qu'il ne convient à l'animal social.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

Definitivamente sé cuidar mi misterio, es imposible saber más de lo que yo misma cuento

I'm in the reservation of my mind.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to a mountain of self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused, hurt and hungry ...

I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.

And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the apparently uneventful and static moment when our future comes upon us is so much closer to life than that other noisy and accidental point when it happens to us as if from the outside.

You are looking outward, and that above all you should not do now. Nobody can counsel and help you, nobody. There is only one single way. Go into yourself.

You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself.

Schließlich wollte ich Ihnen ja auch nur raten, still und ernst durch Ihre Entwicklung durchzuwachsen; Sie können sie gar nicht heftiger stören, als wenn Sie nach außen sehen und von außen Antwort erwarten auf Fragen, die nur Ihr innerstes Gefühl in Ihrer leisteten Stunde vielleicht beantworten kann.

It is said to be the age of the first person singular

Dad, said Will, his voice very faint. Are you a good person? To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself- And, adding it all up...? The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right.

Come on now, we're going to go build a mirror factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.

But I wanted to show what we all have in us, that it has always been there, and so few of us bother to notice. When people ask me where I get my ideas, I laugh. How strange - we are so busy looking out, to find ways and means, we forget to look in.

As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.

What goes on around you … compares little with what goes on inside you. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.