Quotes About Introspection

I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.

Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.