Quotes About Introspectiveness

For in this country, which of all civilizations has been devoted to the most exquisite consideration of the interior life—of the form, structure, and purpose of the self—we are individually multiple, severally alone.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

I don't party or drink or have a social life.

I don't party or socialize.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

I didn't choose solitude.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

Some people drip wax on themselves like a human chianti bottle to see if they feel anything….but getting a wicker basket to fit them is a fiasco

Nemo in sese tentat descendere Kimse kendi içine inmeye çal??maz Persius Bense kendi içimde yuvarlan?p gidiyorum.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions which might otherwise be easily dispelled by a glance, a laugh, an exchange of comments, concern him unduly, they sink into mute depths, take on significance, become experiences, adventures, emotions.

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

More and more lately it seems as though the majority of my conversations are with myself. Given half the stuff I think, that's probably a good thing

She thought, I am becoming a recluse. Yes, that's it, that is the way.

Is that a quotation? Only from me.

Se había acostumbrado a su espacio, su silencio y su soledad; había concluido que le costaría mucho compartir su cama, su baño y su ropero y que ningún hombre podía satisfacer todas sus necesidades.

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world, I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

I do possess a certain rigidity, a certain prudishness. I hate it in myself.

I've always been somewhat of a loner. I seem to take more alone time that the average person.