Quotes About Introspection

Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.

If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.

Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

I find Christmas very difficult.

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Never miss an opportunity to shut up.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

Speak not nor act before thou hast reflected.

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

How often could things be remedied by a word. How often is it left unspoken.

Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.