Quotes About Introspection

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

Our thoughts determine our age.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

In my mid-age I do feel more at peace - not with the world, but with myself.

In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.