Quotes About Introspection

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.

I'm not trying to prove anything.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

Looking back, I sometimes wish I had done things differently. But if I had, I'm not sure that I wouldn't have proven to be my own worst enemy.

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

What man's not guilty? It's taken you a long time to learn That everybody loves himself more than his neighbour.

Why should you feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice.

For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.

Look at it steadily; come closer to the truth. I see-- O, gods, what horror! Oh, what misery!

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

K?sa ve öz konuÅŸarak kendini güzel tan?tt?n, ama ben kad?nlarla konuÅŸmaya utan?r?m.

Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments?

I am less interested in tearing down the veil than in pointing to its presence.

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.