Quotes About Introspective

So, in what ways are you mad?

If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

Proust was not well place to enjoy honest friendships. For a start, he had far too many true but unkind thoughts about people.

I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have retained intact ever since.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

It's always the quiet ones that are the most interesting

It's always the quiet ones that are the most interesting. Stay interesting.

Sometimes at night I conduct interviews with myself. What do you want? I don't know. What do you want? I don't know. What seems to be the problem? Just leave me alone.

But she is tired all the time now. She can feel how slowly she is walking, as if the air itself is something to be reckoned with.

How about this motherfucking darkness?

But my social circle had dwindled. Hell, all I had was a social dot—just me on a one man continuum.

I am an introvert, but I hate solitude. I do now, at least. The quiet of it. My inner voice, without external input, can get lost in chaos.

mira con curiosidad la soledad del cuarto, la soledad de su propia alma;

What kind of suicide is it to kill in the world what you find in yourself?

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

You don't like to talk about yourself, do you? -I don't even like to think about myself.

Let's not talk about how I am. It's a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

So we sat and thought deeply for awhile.