Quotes About Introspection

I really have fallen in love with myself.

I think I may be the most well-adjusted person you'd ever meet who thinks constantly about falling out of her life. And my life is pretty great! It's not like I don't know that.

I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.

You need to be able to communicate what you feel - good or bad. But when I feel things are falling on deaf ears, I take a step back.

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

Self-evaluation is hard, and it starts with me, and it falls on my shoulders, and I'm responsible. But at the end of the day, you are what you are.

There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.

The life of fame was never meant for me.

I think, when you're doing a column and blogging every day, you get familiar with the sound of your own voice.

I'm often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that's never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook's 'Somebody's Baby' or Nina Berberova's 'The Tattered Cloak.'

If I get a bit big-headed, I get a good clip round the ear from my family and friends. I'm still the same person.

Music can tear me up inside.

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar sounds decades older than he is, and it's not necessarily the wear and tear that comes from a rough life; instead, his world-weariness seems to result from years of soul-searching.

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.

I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

One night I'd had some beers, and then I Googled myself and spent the night in tears.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

Unfortunately for me, my England career has massively been soured. Even when I won my 100th cap, what people didn't see was everything that happened before that - which was me in floods of tears - because of how I felt it was handled.

I think television does tease out a certain vanity in everybody when you look at yourself and you go, 'Oh Christ.' Maybe that's why my intros get shorter and shorter.

Sometimes it just becomes so technical that you forget what you're doing. If you start thinking about how you come down the stairs and think about how each muscle is working, you can't go down the stairs. Anyway, I'm a person who overthinks and overanalyzes everything, so if you give me one thought, it creates a lot more.