Quotes About Introspectiveness

I wasn't always this introverted.

Receive what this great cornucopia has offered, Behold a useful and profitable book. If you think otherwise, Do not lay the blame on the book, but on yourself.

What have I in common with Jews? I have almost nothing in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience.

should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

Nes t?ra tik vienas didis nuotykis - vidinis skverbimasis ? save, o tam neturi ?takos nei laikas, nei erdv?, nei netgi veiksmai.

For a thinking man, the main thing is to understand who he is within

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain. Therefore, Farewell:

La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi.

Sou sociável ao excesso. Por isso me parece razoável subtrair da vista das pessoas a minha importunidade para incubá-la sozinho, e encolher-me e recolher-me em minha carapaça, como as tartarugas. Aprendo a ver os homens sem a eles me agarrar: isso seria um ultraje quando o passo é tão cambaleante.

Zelfkritiek betekent de onderwerping van de aangeklaagde aan de aanklager.

Amo la sombra y la oscuridad, y prefiero, cuando puedo, estar a solas con mis pensamientos.

I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.

Deep in the leather armchair of his soul

Self-contemplation is a curse That makes an old confusion worse.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

Maybe this is who I really am. Not a loner, exactly. But someone who can be alone.

But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky

He was an observer of what was happening rather than a participant. There could be neither enjoyment or disgust, only awareness.