Quotes About Introspective

Dad moved in with the baffled deepsea shyness of a character just arriving in a story already underway.

could never get anything going in Toronto, never even got one gig with a band. So I moved instead towards acoustic music and immediately became very introspective and musically inward. That's the beginning of that whole side of my music.

In a period when everyone was being cool in a very adolescent, self-conscious way, Syd was unfashionably outgoing; my enduring memory of our first encounter is the fact that he bothered to come up and introduce himself to me.

In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

107] Comme on dirait un gobe-mouche, un désœuvré, un oisif, qui bat l'eau pour faire des ronds, qui fume pour faire quelque chose et ne fait autre emploi de ses dix doigts que de soutenir le tuyau de sa pipe de l'air du monde le plus préoccupé.

I am who I am and that's who I am.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!

He is social, but not in large groups. "I don't go readily to cocktail parties, where people just come together and talk. I don't tend to like that kind of thing. I'd rather sit down with somebody and find a mutual topic of interest, and explore it in depth with that person, or maybe two or three people. Not a conversation that says how do you feel".

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

You are a question to yourself. You've become a question to all those who meet you, those who know you (...). You doubt, at times, if you exist outside your own thoughts, outside your own head.

Ba?kalar?na söyleyecek bir sözüm olabilmesi için önce kendime söz geçirmem gerekti?ine inan?yorum.

Onlar utans?n sonuçtan' diye kestirip att?. 'Hangi onlar Selim?' dedim. 'Onlar i?te,' dedi. 'Onlar can?m. onlar, onlar, onlar.' 'Öyle ya,' dedim. 'Onlar. Yani biz de?il.

Büyük Suçlular Ansiklopedisi"ni okumaya ba?lad?. L harfine kadar geldi. Kendinden büyük suçlu bulamad?.

Or maybe her smile has nothing to do with me, and I'm not really the center of the universe. Unlikely, but possible.

perhaps solitude has stretched out his thoughts into long strands, and accustomed him to internal dialogues.

Jestem osob? bardzo pow?ci?gliw?, bardzo nie?mia??, obsesyjnie strzeg?c? swojej prywatno?ci i zasadniczo stroni?c? od ludzi. I nie wierz? w mity, zw?aszcza we w?asny.

faithfully kept a Confucian-style diary of daily self-criticism.

I am congenitally unable to take much interest in other people,

I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

Eu sou um gato, de Soseki,

Un hombre que se enamora cada día más profundamente de sí mismo no escucha lo que los demás le dicen. Lo siguiente de lo que se da cuenta es que yace en un subterráneo, indigno de considerarse humano.

The human being...is a book reading itself.