Quotes About Introspection

'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don't want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn't do any good. It really doesn't.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

There are very few things in the world that make me feel a feeling, really.

Boxing is one of the very few things left in life that you know who you are as soon as you step into the ring.

The important thing is not the measurement of how many or few things you have, but your own state of mind and how you feel about the things you have and don't have.

There are a few things I lost which I shouldn't have lost. I know what I did wrong. I was lazy.

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

Maybe this is wrong, but I feel like I craft my songs carefully enough that I still find that fifteen years after having written one, it still works for me - I'm not cringing.

I would love to love Saul Bellow, but by page fifty of 'Herzog', something within me has wandered into another room.

I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.

I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

I know this sounds ridiculous, but I'm not much of a fighter.

A lot of people think they're better than they are and it can be very hard to get found out when you come up against a good fighter, getting dominated in every single way - every area you thought you were good in.

I never had thoughts that I'd become a fighter.

I don't want to be one of those fighters that say I could've been this, I could've been that.

Me, I don't know anything. Don't even know fighters in my own division.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

I'm not fighting with myself.

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.