Quotes About Introspectiveness

I've always been a bit of a loner.

I used to consider myself a loner.

I'm not a very macho guy.

She's not stupid. She just never lets her mind out.

It is odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it.

But while I have never considered myself a very good person, neither can I bring myself to believe that I am spectacularly bad one. Perhaps it's simply impossible to think of oneself in such a way.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself.

Each of us is indeed alone.

Sometimes I don't know if my life is complicated, or if it's that I just think too much about things.

If it troubles us it must be that we find the trouble in ourselves.

But as soon as I was with some one else, when I began to talk to a friend, my mind at once 'turned about,' it was towards the listener and not myself that it directed its thoughts, and when they followed this outward course they brought me no pleasure.

I would feel the satisfaction of being shut in from the outer world...

And then my thoughts, did not they form a similar sort of hiding-hole, in the depths of which I felt that I could bury myself and remain invisible even when I was looking at what went on outside?

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party

Debe ser una regla general que los solitarios no simpaticemos ¿O será que sencillamente, somos antipáticos?

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

One can never be as naked, as exposed, in the flesh as one becomes in the mind

smiling. Alone, Mateo turned

Whosoever is delighted in solitude," goes the old saying that Francis Bacon repeated, "is either a wild beast or a god.

la soledad es el patrimonio de la edad adulta.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

I am who I am and that's who I am.