Quotes About Introspection

Solitude is the companion of warriors.

A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.

Every movie has the thing it's about, and then, deep down, it has this thing that it's really about. 'Star Wars' is not really about a space opera, action, and the galactic quest. It's about self-doubt.

After something has run its course, you either become a parody and keep doing it, or tear it down and know the truth about it, warts and all.

I'm really wary of self-help books.

I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.

When someone praises me, I get wary. If someone has something negative to say, I invite them over for a long chat. They are important for my growth as an actor.

I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.

On a good day, he was friend enough. On a bad day, running into his inadequacy was like tripping up the stairs. It hurt, but it felt like my own fault.

The darkness was full, fuller than she would ever have guessed, and she found this curiously comforting.

I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

There's a room in my heart full of unpaid bills. We all have one. It's useful to go in occasionally and open a few.

I did not understand that I carried loneliness before me on a plate, and that music would be the light illuminating me from behind.

Experiencing nothingness had left her feeling unexpectedly full.

But do not make the mistake, Seraphina, of supposing that suffering ennobles anyone.

We try to do right, and we ... we ... they gang up on us, fear and pain and revenge and ... and then we find we've done wrong.

What do you call someone who thinks deeply and can't stop talking about it?" "A priest?" said Tess, mystified. "A philosopher?

Some sober part of my brain seemed to observe everything I did, clucking disdainfully, informing me that ought to be embarrassed, yet making no move

world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods,

Enough mind chatter. I imagined every thought encapsulated in a bubble; I exhaled them into the world. Gradually the noise ceased, and my mind was dark and still.