Quotes About Introspection

I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good. I know too much to be good. I know myself. I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside.

I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.

I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

I'm not very good at promotion.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, Youve got everything going for you right now, and I say, Oh yes, but! Which is not a good way to be.

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.