Quotes About Introspectiveness

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

To live and move about the world without questioning how the world has shaped and is shaping you is, in a way, to betray the gift of life itself, Baldwin argued.

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

Have you ever remarked, that people who live the most by themselves reflect the most upon others; and that he who lives surrounded by the million never thinks of any but the one individual — himself?

Tis the hardest thing in the world to be a good Thinker, without being a strong Self-Examiner.

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

I don't know. I know nothing. I am very tired.

I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length of time, and that is my self-knowledge. I can watch myself and my actions, just like an outsider.

È una caratteristica umana il fatto che i nostri problemi personali, quelli che più s'identificano con noi stessi, sono i più difficili da esaminare con la nostra logica. Abbiamo la tendenza a ricercarne le cause intorno a noi, accusando tutto e tutti, salvo la cosa ben reale e profondamente radicata in noi, che ci consuma.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

Silent, not from embarrassment or any other reason, but simply silent.

Beni hayal k?r?kl???na u?ratan benden ba?kas? de?il.

I'm not Gore Vidal or William Buckley.

I've always felt like I was observing everything, like I'm just looking out of the window, peeping how everybody is living and just penning about it, so I made the album about that concept.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Mon je ne me suffit pas.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

the reflective isolation of this year

If I was not for others what up to then I had believed myself to be to myself, what was I?