Quotes About Introspective

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

I'm not really the party person. I don't 'become myself' once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy.

I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.

I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.

This is really clear to me now. Ever since, I've never felt as tepid of this place as other people do. Everything seems like a long, improbable afterlife.

We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.

Yesterday I wanted to turn inside out.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

There is noting wrong with not understanding yourself.

I had to do it for myself.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

It won't surprise you to hear that I'm a skeptical person. I don't even believe half the garbage that tumbles from my own mouth.

Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Virginia Woolf, David Foster Wallace, Seneca, Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, William Inge, Anne Sexton, Hart Crane, Yukio Mishima, and John Kennedy Toole.

I'm in the reservation of my mind.

I have a notion that genius knows itself; that Dickinson chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed.

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.

I introspect on how I am perceived by other people. It's been this way since my childhood.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic.

I am a self-critical perfectionist.