Quotes About Introspection

How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.