Quotes About Introspective

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

Oh, it doesn't get me. I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.

But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.

tenho tendência para acautelar todos os juízos de valor, um hábito que me desvendou muitas naturezas curiosas, mas que também me vitimou com muitos aborrecimentos de morte. (...) na faculdade (...) era o confidente dos sofrimentos secretos de homens atormentados e obscuros. Não desejei a maior parte dessas confidências...

I know myself,' he cried, 'but that is all.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define.

Eu que me aguente comigo e com os comigos de mim.

O meu sentimento é cinza Da minha imaginação, E eu deixo cair a cinza No cinzeiro da Razão.

A minha alma era a mesma de sempre, entre lençóis como entre gente, dolorosamente consciente do mundo.

I'm two, and both keep their distance – Siamese twins that aren't attached.

I watch myself. I am a witness to myself. My feelings parade past some unrecognizable gaze of mine like things external. Everything about me bores me. Everything, right down to its mysterious roots, has taken on the color of my tedium.

Nestas impressões sem nexo, nem desejo de nexo, narro indiferentemente a minha autobiografia sem factos, a minha história sem vida. São as minhas Confissões, e, se nelas nada digo, é que nada tenho que dizer. Fernando Pessoa.

E eu tenho do alto orgulho a timidez E sinto horror a abrir o ser a alguém, A confiar n'alguém. Horror eu sinto A que prescrute alguém, ou levemente Ou não, quaisquer recantos do meu ser.

Que mãos estenderei para que universo? O universo não é meu: sou eu.

O que há em mim é sobretudo cansaço —Não disto nem daquilo. Nem sequer de tudo ou de nada. Cansaço assim mesmo, ele mesmo. Cansaço.

Nu ÅŸtiu ce înseamn? s? m? cunosc.Nu m? v?d pe dinl?untru.Nu cred c? eu exist undeva înd?r?tul meu.

what they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them.

I was a little bit of a loner, but fascinated with emotions that people feel.

I find myself fascinating.

I was never my favourite subject.

I was never the feisty kind of activist.

'No Burden' is not necessarily ferocious.