Quotes About Introspection

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

I am the only person I would like to know thoroughly

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.