Quotes About Introspectiveness

Reading about myself on public platforms makes me uncomfortable. I don't like it. I read other people's interviews or articles, but when it comes to myself, if I see something about myself then I immediately turn over the page.

There lives a man, who is too small for his own brain." #iampm

Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.

But now everything was lost: all the scattered effect of a real person, complicated beyond counting. (Post production, 197)

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves

To be real with you, I have no problem with being a hermit, man.

Oh, it was just me—that's why

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.

my own company being intolerable, since it excited me too much and to no purpose

Isn't it amazing how a kid can come out of all that analyzing everything incessantly down to the most infinitesimal neurosis and still be all alone?

Truman was so self-absorbed that it took him a long while to realize Marella had taken him out of her life.

but I am the sort of person who does not seem to need the day-to-day emotional support provided by normal civilized social contact.

Besides, please bear in mind that no one with anything to say ever said anything about anybody but himself.

La soledad es el imperio de la conciencia.

I am other I now.

He went up to his room after dinner in order to be alone with his soul: and at every step his soul seemed to sigh: at every step his soul mounted with his feet, sighing in the ascent, through a region of viscid gloom.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

The place at which the contrast between forms of intelligibility is most vividly presented is in the understanding of ourselves.

I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

In his book Pensées, a collection of fragments of theology and philosophy, the seventeenth-century French philosopher Pascal suggested that all of humanity's problems stem from our inability to sit, alone, in one room.

All our troubles, says somebody wise, come upon us because we cannot be alone.