Quotes About Introspectiveness

Razborit ?ovjek mora na?i dovoljno društva u samom sebi.

Un hombre sensato debe encontrar suficiente compañía en sí mismo.

Un hombre sensato debe tener bastante compañía consigo mismo. -¡Magnífica compañía- murmuró Heathcliff [...]

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.

I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

it encourages its readers to engage in similar acts of self-scrutiny.

a face more suited for making book than selling books.

The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry

There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, -- or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.

For my own part, I'd never live with anyone, male of female. I have trouble enough living with myself.

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 experienced in himself. And the recognition by the reader in his own self of what the book says is the proof of its veracity.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

But she is tired all the time now. She can feel how slowly she is walking, as if the air itself is something to be reckoned with.

mira con curiosidad la soledad del cuarto, la soledad de su propia alma;

You don't like to talk about yourself, do you? -I don't even like to think about myself.

I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world.

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.

Part of me has always been a private person.

I am a private person and that has always been my personality.

I'm a private person.

I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.