Quotes About Introspectiveness

Seekers are also often calm and quiet and have a natural inclination to being alone, and to working on their own. They

When you're alone, you're in bad compny

You can never get away from your own self.

by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.

Å, Anna Aemelin, det eneste du bryr deg om, er din egen samvittighet, det er den du pleier.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

To her, companionship must have seemed highly overrated.

How lonely we are in the world; how selfish and secret, everybody!

Suppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know what you thought when you looked in the subway slot-machine? How brutally you spoke when you were angry? How Nature rode you with a busy spur? How you fell on your knees late at night?

My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it.

El día que el ser humano se hizo una pregunta sobre sí mismo, entonces se convirtió en el más ininteligible de los seres por donde circulaba la sangre.

Dear God, how sweetly she sank into the incomprehension of herself.

Bizarrely, I am convinced that a writer incapable of talking about himself is not a complete writer. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ,

Alone, she read herself into the "middle of a world", like "shutting the doors of a Cathedral". She took long solitary walks, in all weathers, talking to herself and reciting, "very lively in my head..

Élem a magam életét, nyalogatom a saját sebeimet. Lehet, hogy nem ez a legjobb megoldás, de én ilyen vagyok.

I think I was a late developer because I'd been stuck in the country and was a little bit shy and withdrawn.

You can't think about what other people think. You just can't. It's stupid. You've got to look inside yourself.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

some people were born quiet, preferring to listen.

Look, I've got more personalities than I can use already. All you are is one too many.

the complete man - as unimpressive as he is unimpressed

I find an empty page friendlier than speaking to another person.

I'm not an activist.

I will not become analytical about my work.