Quotes About Introspection

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

Sunday, there's not a lot of structure. I might spend an hour thinking about why I don't exercise, and feeling very guilty about not exercising. I tried running, over 10 years ago. It didn't really take.

I might have sung party numbers, but I love to party alone.

I just had loads of thoughts in my head, and I didn't like talking about them, so I kind of just sung about them.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries.

I don't much care for the sunlight or bright colours of any kind.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.

Going to parties by myself? Yeah, I don't know if it's super cool or super uncool. I haven't decided yet.

I've gotten to a place where I'm better at curbing your ego, which usually happens when you're feeling super small and scared about whatever you're seeing, and you want to go read, 'Oh, I hear there's a really good article about me.' I've gotten better about knowing that's not going to end well, usually.

People always say when they meet me that I'm not what they expect. I assume they think I'm this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

I'd love to think that I'm a super human being, but I'm not.

Working as a model is high-speed, and my own work in every sense is super slow and doubtful.

As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

I don't have any hidden depths; I'm a very superficial person. It's a constant frustration to me.

If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed.

I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy.

If you get too caught up with the superficial part of beauty, you get too self-conscious.

I'm sure critics feel that there's more to me than superficial glamor.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant...