Quotes About Introspection

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page.

Everyone feels at times like they're missing a page or two out of the handbook that tells you how to live your life.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

If we talked about heartbreak more, would we feel as bad about it? Or would it kind of be more mundane in a less painful way.

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

There's nothing more painful than writing.

We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.

My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people - because I was close to something that fell apart.

I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.

As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'

I'm on television far too much. I'm not sure why. I've watched myself on TV from time to time. It's painful.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.

I felt like I was a bit more respected when I started to paint. It was like revealing my diary, but in a different language. It was something that was mysterious about me.

I constantly modify myself. There are downfalls to that because you are constantly trying to figure out who you are, but at the same time, I'm blessed with the lack of base paint on the canvas.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

I paint as a way of looking for myself in the world.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.