Quotes About Introspection

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don't call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

I used to think I was ugly because I was the baby.

My maturity level has increased, as earlier I was rather childish and was easily influenced by what others used to say, and I have changed myself a lot. Now, I understand things before doing anything and also, I used to say anything, but I think one should think carefully before speaking.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you. You have no continuity at all. You give us 'Addicted to Love,' and you're a rock n' roll star, then you give us 'She Makes My Day,' and what's that?' But that was a hit, too. It either gets across or it doesn't.

I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

In high school, I always had boyfriends - it wasn't healthy! I was so used to having someone around that when I was finally on my own, it felt scary.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.