Quotes About Introspectiveness

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward--that's why they've been give bodies, to hide their souls.

It's perfect justice: natures like yours are hardest on themselves.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Daca vreun om s-a devorat pe el insusi,acela sunt eu.

The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.

I'm kind of a recluse.

Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.

I have always been a bit of a recluse, but I really was after the heart thing. And everyone knew.

Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse.

I'm a pretty private person, so I don't mind not being recognized.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.

I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.

Like all man who have lived much alone, he adjusted himself better to ideas than to people.

Once again I am only who I am.

I can only speak to myself. (Bush, George W.; 2005).

I don't have friends, to be honest.

I wish I could be built so that stupidity and dullness wouldn't bother me as much, but I just can't help it. It may sound paradoxical, but with time one wishes to be a hermit instead of always being around people. - Doctor Doris Maza

When we enter the arctic labyrinth known as Late James, the retreat from the reader, the embrace of introversion, is as emphatic as that of Joyce, and far more fiendishly prolonged.

Ein geistreicher Mensch hat, in gänzlicher Einsamkeit, an seinen eigenen Gedanken und Phantasien vortreffliche Unterhaltung, während von einem Stumpfen die fortwährende Abwechslung von Gesellschaften, Schauspielen, Ausfahrten und Lustbarkeiten, die marternde Langeweile nicht abzuwenden vermag.

Cuanto más tiene uno en sí mismo, menos precisa de fuera y menos pueden significar los demás para él. De ahí que la excelencia de espíritu empuje a la insociabilidad. Es en la soledad donde cada uno es remitido a sí mismo, donde se muestra lo que tiene en sí mismo. La gente corriente tan sólo piensa en pasar el tiempo; quien posee algún talento, en aprovecharlo.

alone. "I think it is unlikely you have it

Han tände en cigarr och ställde sig att betrakta porträttet. Den som observerat hans ansikte nu, skulle icke kunna se hans tankar, ty han hade redan lärt sig så mycket om livets konst att han icke en gång anförtrodde ensamheten sina meningar, ja, han fruktade till och med att meddela sig med sig själv.