Quotes About Introspectiveness

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado.

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

I have come to this lonely place, and here is this other.

I have always been considerably addicted to my own company.

Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Once more I realize acutely that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

then go to my room where solitude gaped whale-jawed wide to swallow me entire.

Each person should examine his own work … not in respect to someone else. For each person will have to carry his own load. Galatians 6:4–5

Part of me is very shy.

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

I am not myself with people [...] but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Donde el entendimiento no ve más allá de uno mismo

The characters I write about are very internal.

I can get very quiet and internalize things.

Nonetheless innuendo and imperfectly definable actions hover over the actions of the hermit.

It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.

y es que yo puedo permitirme el lujo de abandonarme porque nunca estoy abandonado, estoy solo para poder vivir en una soledad poblada de pensamientos,...