Quotes About Introspection

Every time we watch a little story play out inside our head, we're fantasizing, whether we realize it or not, and it seems to me that, though succumbing to fantasies about other people can be dangerous or self-defeating, the act of fantasizing itself is also an essential part of being human, of being capable of both abstraction and empathy.

A lot of my life has been lonely. Fantastic, but lonely.

I lived so completely in my mind - a place of unchecked delusion and complete fantasy!

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.

At a certain point, you have to face the fact that you've turned into an old fart.

These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.

I was a little bit of a loner, but fascinated with emotions that people feel.

You're always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.

I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I feel I don't need to.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

I find myself fascinating.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

I'm not fashionable.

Throughout my whole football career, I have always known I wasn't the fastest guy.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves internally and externally.

That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.

I think at the end of the day, I am myself, to a fault.