Quotes About Introspective

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,Nor am I even the thing I could be.

He became reflective and, somehow, withdrawn [zamknutym]. He gave up games but not books, and would go off in a corner and read assiduously."[127] Thus, young Djugashvili began to show the reticence and brooding aloofness from others that would characterize him in later years.

Without any visual cues or any action on the part of others, we can place ourselves inside their minds and imagine what they might be thinking.

Often it is the quiet ones, those who give out less at first glance, who hide greater depths, and who secretly wield greater power.

I feel as if I have walked into a mirrored room and glimpsed myself from an unfamiliar angle for the first time. Is that really what I look like? Is that who I am?

He lived alone, in a small house full of books, and did nothing all day except read and think—a most dangerous occupation for a man, which in my experience leads invariably to dyspepsia and melancholy

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

a face more suited for making book than selling books.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. One June evening, when

In the last year or two he had not only grown indifferent to company, he had begun to find it irritating.

I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults.

Was I his? Was he mine? Fuck, I didn't know. How could I not know after more than a year? How could I not know the answer to this? What the fuck was wrong with me? What the fuck was wrong… with me? With… him and me, with us? No, with me. With me. What was wrong with me?

Who are you?" My voice came out a little breathy. "I'm Micah Callahan.

For my own part, I'd never live with anyone, male of female. I have trouble enough living with myself.

I'm just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I'm happy. Not sad. I'm just shy and nervous.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

I'm kind of sad and happy all the time. Just kind of like feeling, you know, full of life and confident, and at the same time terrified. I'm all of those things at once.

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.

It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

I'd stopped waving to passengers in cars by then- I'd grown suspicious of people and all the complications of interior lives- so I sat and watched and rode and thought, and as soon as the bus doors opened, we all rolled out the doorand split apart like billiard balls.