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Quotes About Introspective

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
~ James Taylor
I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
~ Diana Krall
I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.
~ Flying Lotus
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
~ Steven Morrissey
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.
~ Dana Spiotta
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
~ Anton Chekhov
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
~ Ed Helms
The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.
~ Aaron Siskind
By nature I'm not a brooder.
~ Hugh Jackman
I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.
~ John Cusack
Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
~ John Keats
We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor.
~ Robert Lowell, Life Studies
We should not look for more in others, Rather find more within ourselves
~ Morris R. Gates
Dagboekschrijvers als ik schrijven hun dagboek met de onuitgesproken bedoeling zichzelf als een ander voor zich te kunnen zien… Eigenlijk zijn ze geen dagboekschrijvers, maar zelfportrettisten, of een mengeling van die twee.
~ Willem Frederik Hermans
No matter how cleverly you sneak up on a mirror your reflection always looks you straight in the eye.
~ William Hjortsberg
Miss Burgess Fern came up, sat in the chair beside her sister, and, after listening a moment, said, "I think the secret of Rhoda's temperament is the simple fact that she doesn't need others, the way most of us do. She is such a self-sufficient little girl! Never in all my life have I seen anybody so completely all-of-one-piece!
~ William March
The first big thing suffering does is it drags you deeper into yourself.
~ David Brooks
To survive and evolve, every society needs some individuals who are more aggressive, restless, stubborn, submissive, social, hyperactive, flexible, solitary, anxious, introspective, vigilant - and even more morose, irritable, or outright violent - than the norm.
~ David Dobbs
La creación le había dado no solo una densidad insólita, sino también la capacidad de no esperar nada de nadie.
~ David Foenkinos
It's just that I'm curious, that's all. He usually walks alone" "Yeah, he's a loner, all right," the waitress murmured. "Even when he's with someone, he's alone.
~ David Goodis
Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.
~ Johannes Tauler
Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.
~ Charlton Heston
I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.
~ Edward Thomas