Quotes About Introspective

Nothing will get you anywhere with me," I exclaimed. "I don't know about that." He put on an introspective look that was both unexpected and intriguing. "You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a Russian warlord. You and I just have to overcome hundreds of years' worth of deeply ingrained prejudice and taboo between our two races. Easy.

He was a deep thinker from an early age; it was a problem that would plague him throughout his life - he could be overly sensitive and prone to thinking about things too much.

have time to take out your soul and look at it.

She gave me the serious goldfish face, then went back to staring at her dress.

If you asked me what Uncle Vanya is about, I would say about as much as I can take.

Somewhere along the line I began compiling myself from the excerpts of better men.

Gud hvor De ser ut som en sån melankolsk fabelkat.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

I'm very romantic and very soppy, but sometimes I wish I wasn't!

In spite of the fact that everyone thinks I am very much a rottweiler - that i am very dark and everything - I have a side that is very romantic that i show to very few people.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

His practice was to listen noncommittally with half his mind, while he allowed the other half to lose itself in utterly unrelated , often deeply lonely musings. From the speaker's perspective it was like sticking a lance into something again and again with no result...

The quietest of people have the loudest of minds.

Reading Turgenev":

I was born with gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.

I was born with a gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.

I found him most of the time grave-faced, staring ahead of him, and eating frugally.

We often hate or ridicule something that we believe to represent an integral part of our selves, our own character that we dislike internally. It's a dichotomy that we can't and won't hate anything that is truly outside our element. We're surely our own worst critics.

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all.