Quotes About Introspectiveness

Ritual of Personal Reflection.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

The problem with being me, thought Isabel, as she walked along George IV Bridge, is that I keep thinking about the problem of being me.

And when I say "the least of us", or even "the weaker brethren", I do not mean other people, you know: I mean myself.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

Geryon watched the top of Herakles' head and felt his limits returning. Nothing to say. Nothing.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

People living alone get used to loneliness.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

Oh, it doesn't get me. I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.

The careless violins and saxophones, the shrill rasping complaint of a child near by, the voice of the violet-hatted girl at the next table, all moved slowly out, receded, and fell away like shadowy reflections on the shining floor - and they two, it seemed to him, were alone and infinitely remote, quiet.

O meu sentimento é cinza Da minha imaginação, E eu deixo cair a cinza No cinzeiro da Razão.

what they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them.

I was a little bit of a loner, but fascinated with emotions that people feel.

I'd rather point a finger at myself than others.

I'm a helpless, recovering introvert

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual...

In the first case, he personally enjoyed the esthetic; in the second case, he esthetically enjoyed his personality.

he was a cithara-player, not a man.

Each man is forever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

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.

From youth, I have been accustomed to direct the eyes of my spirit inwards rather than outwards; and hence it is very natural, that, to a certain extent, I should be acquainted with man, while of men I have not the smallest knowledge.