Quotes About Introspection

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

I'm trying to create a relationship with myself. I feel good being married to myself right now!

A bad day can tell you more about yourself than a good day.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.

I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.

I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

I think it is a good exercise to ask oneself, "How would I have wanted to be treated?"

Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?" I do know. And more than that, it's just so incredibly hard to feel. (54)

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

At this point, you are so far away from what you really are, it is ridiculous. The good news is that every step you take within brings you more in touch with that which you really are.

I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

Even if something within me is ugly, writing is a pretty good place to play with that thing and to begin to really see it.

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.