Quotes About Introspective

You remember the little poem by Ibsen that I quoted to you during one of our early meetings? MYSELF: Only vaguely. Something about self-judgement. DR. VON HALLER: No, no; self-judgement comes later. Now pay attention, please: To live is to battle with trolls in the vaults of heart and brain. To write: that is to sit in judgement over one's self.

Had Rockefeller not feared his own capacity for excess, he wouldn't have engaged in such strenuous introspection.

Washington grew as a leader because he engaged in searching self-criticism.

self-referential semantic labyrinth.

She looked away and said nothing, but then eventually she nodded, in a way that could have been deeply contemplative, or ruefully determined, or somewhere in between. It was hard to tell.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.

I would call myself more spiritual than religious.

I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

I'm not religious. I would say I'm more spiritual than religious.

I was a spiritual kid.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

He may gain consciousness and feel like talking. I could leave a nurse here but their damned professional cheeriness depresses introspective men. Talk to him if he feels like it, and if he wants a doctor call me on this.

My library was to me an utterly private space that both enclosed and mirrored me.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

No hay más Tierra Prometida que la que el hombre puede encontrar en sí mismo.

He was, besides, one of those men who like to witness their own life, considering any ambition to live it inappropriate

He sounds very unworldly," replied Ulf. "From what I heard the other night, he doesn't really know what's going on. He's a philosopher, you see.

Moral commonplaces are amazingly useful when we can find little in ourselves with which to justify our actions.

From his earliest years, Alfred Hitchcock was a loner and a watcher, an observer rather than a participant. "I don't remember ever having a playmate," he recalled as an adult. At family gatherings: "I would sit quietly in a corner, saying nothing. I looked and observed a great deal. I've always been that way and still am. I was anything but expansive. I was a loner—can't even remember having had a playmate. I played by myself, inventing my own games.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.