Quotes About Introspection

I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

I'm definitely an observer of human behavior. I always have been.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

Who will observe the observers?

I look like I'm not listening, but I'm actually listening. I like listening to everything, observing everybody, just taking everything in, and then, in my mind, figuring out what's good for me and what's bad for me.

You can learn so much just by observing.

My books are based on observing others, not myself.

I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

I believe in observing and absorbing life.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

I'm obsessed with being human.

One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have a racist bone in our bodies.' We have to face the racism in ourselves.

It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.