Quotes About Introspection

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

All of us have been through relationships; there have been periods of time when we've been single. It's something that everyone experiences. It's a matter of making that observation and then start to ask questions about it: Why is it like that? And why do we feel that? And why are we organized this way? Isn't there any other way?

There are a lot of peripheral things that you have to deal with in this league, and I dealt with a lot of them when I came in. It's everything from being on your own to facing the media.

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath.

My mom would say I'm a good kid... but I put them through a lot. I was rejecting religion and, not permanently, also kind of rejecting the things that they'd taught me, and just trying to think for myself.

What's perplexing to me is that I never think it's anybody's business to know my business.

I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I'm not interested in a persona.

As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

There's a persona that musicians carry with them. I like to find what's under the persona.

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very few listeners, so that man can only, as it were, chatter on in the void when he pours out his confessions: he squanders his 'truths', as the sun does its light. - Isn't it rather a pity that the void has no ears?

Les dieux ont enseigné aux hommes à se contempler eux-mêmes dans le spectacle comme les dieux se contemplent eux-mêmes dans l'imagination des hommes.

Où sont cachés les stigmates du pire quand la vie courante nous contraint chaque jour à renaître à la banalité écoeurante et splendide ?

It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings?...Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?

He did not think of God nor of his family but remarked to himself, 'Okay, I'm dying.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.