Quotes About Introspective

Her thoughts, however, resembled those of a fish – something seen floating in a tank, brooding, self-absorbed, frigid, moving solemnly forward to its object or veering slowly sideways without fully conscious motivation. She had been born, apparently, without any natural predilection towards thought or action, and the circumstances of her early life had seemed to render both unnecessary.

If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.

Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

I do not have much in me that might encourage a woman to make long habit of my company.

Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself.

Se fue volviendo cada vez más introvertido. Le gustaba vagar solo y sin rumbo...

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

Robert had little patience with these introspective bouts of mine. He never seemed to question his artistic drives, and by his example, I understood that what matters is the work: the string of words propelled by God becoming a poem, the weave of color and graphite scrawled upon the sheet that magnifies His motion. To achieve within the work a perfect balance of faith and execution. From this state of mind comes a light, life-charged.

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.

And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.

you have to ask yourself two questions: Who am I? And how may I become myself?

The tragedy of contemporary philosophy is that it has been castrated.

I have this special ability to see the fault, the defect, the thing that is wrong with any person, place, thing or situation. I see right to the core of the problem. Not only can I see it, I need to tell you about it because I'm sure you want to know.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

No tengo inconveniente en escribir sobre mí mismo. Diría que es casi lo único que hago.

I was alone with myself, and we watched each other with steady, cold, inward eyes: the past and its consequence, the reality and its insubordinate dream.

I sometimes feel the most for my clients who were "only" neglected, because it is so difficult to see neglect as hard core evidence. Most people remember little before they were four years old. And by that time, much of this kind of damage is done. It typically takes some very deep introspective work, to realize that current time flashback pain is a re-creation of how bad it felt to be emotionally abandoned.

The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

God, the names. You could almost walk into the words themselves." Now Jack put down his cup. He'd never heard anyone say that and it was true. For a moment he lost the blithe tempo of their conversation that had shielded him from his own shyness.