Quotes About Introspection

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

Obviously we're all our own biggest critics.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that's weird!

Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.

If I were to die today, I would be nervous about what people would say at my funeral. I would be happy if they said things like, 'He was a nice guy' or, 'He was occasionally decent' or, 'Mike wasn't as bad as a lot of people.'

The sometimes-tough love of the Christian faith of my childhood demanded a certain amount of self-reflection and, occasionally, self-criticism.

I don't really party. I'll occasionally have a drink.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

There are so many occasions when I'd like to go back in time and have a word with myself.

Writing is a very isolating occupation.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Sometimes all you have left to win with is the knowledge of why you're taking the beating and the realization that nobody else is going to save you from it.

He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after.

All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

I cannot bear that chirpy Bobby Kennedy, always building his beaver's nest with a few more facts. He needs to look into the abyss.

The moments like these, the passing doubts, were the temptations that caught you if you were not careful.

The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist.