Quotes About Introspection

I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger', and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

Swallow your pride and be completely objective about your own poker skill level. Only then can you implement an effective betting strategy.

I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Life just swallowed me up for a few years.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

Periodically, my mind is blown and I'm swamped in feelings I can't deny.

I do listen to myself sometimes and think, 'Is my moral compass so easily swayed by the characters I play, or is it me growing as a human being?'

I swear if I had to do this over again, I would just do the paintings and never show them.

I swear to God, like, every day, the majority of my day is sentimental.

I swear, I have not played 'Dare Iz A Darkside' damn near since I did it. Seriously!

I never feel like I've done anything. Swear to God. I'm not kidding. So it's always a surprise when somebody asks me to do anything.

I think it's incredible what I've done. A lot of sweat. But as an innovator, I look back and can't help but go, 'Damn, there's things I could've done better, you know?'

I think, a lot of my career and my life before I went to Sweden, I felt like I was trying to be someone else.

I'm Swedish. Sweden is known for its melancholia.

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.

So, things aren't clicking with this sweet guy who keeps calling you. So what? Things like chemistry and fate and all the rest actually exist. You don't need to flip out if you're seeing a guy who's really nice to you and you're not attracted to him. It doesn't have to necessarily be because he's nice to you and you hate yourself.

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.