Quotes About Introspection

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

Seventeen's not a good age. That's when you realize that you have a heart. That's when feelings get in the way of thinking.

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

The arctic loneliness of age.

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

So as through a glass and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names - but always me.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.

Fear comes with middle age.

People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.