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Quotes About Introspection

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
~ Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
~ Berthold Auerbach
Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.
~ Taylor Swift
What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone
~ Muriel Rukeyser
I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.
~ Peter Robinson
You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.
~ Paul Auster
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.
~ Kristin Hannah
I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.
~ Chantal Kreviazuk
I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
~ Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.
~ Martin Freeman
I think I learned pretty early that in the end, its only you. To an extent, youre all alone.
~ Lee Atwater
Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.
~ Amy Dickinson
Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.
~ Julia Child
Oh, the pleasure of eating my dinner alone!
~ Charles Lamb
I don't know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I'm not alone, I keep telling myself.
~ Pittacus Lore
There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.
~ Robert Breault
The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.
~ Andy Rooney
...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.
~ Diablo Cody
I'm so accustomed to being alone.
~ Leighton Meester