Quotes About Introspection

That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

Sometimes when I write songs, I don't know what they're about, and it just suddenly comes to me.

I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.

Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.

When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

Even though I'm in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues... from the way that I look or the way that I talk... just nitpicking at myself.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

I am kind of a cold guy and I don't suffer much because of the past.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I think I suffer from some mild depression.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.