Quotes About Introspection

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

I often spend the majority of my time thinking and writing down notes.

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

Public notice does not necessarily accord with internal fulfilment.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

It's like, say, if you were a dog. You notice that you're getting old, and you look at your human and you think, 'Why isn't this human getting old?'... But now we're the human looking out and imagining a different human.

Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.

Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

I really do miss being able to go through life a little less noticed.

I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.