Quotes About Introspective

T? ir mana mor?le. Es piespiežu sevi iedom?ties, ka tas attiecas uz mani person?gi.

I was quiet and self-controlled.

He seemed always to be thinking." In many respects, John was forgettable and indistinguishable from many other boys.

Even as he scared people away, he was a lonely man

I'm just an actor, and no more interesting than you are. She scribbled her name. Probably not as interesting, actually You should pay more attention to yourself and less to people like me. You'll be better off that way.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual...

In the first case, he personally enjoyed the esthetic; in the second case, he esthetically enjoyed his personality.

People do say that now to know oneself is a deception and an imperfection, but often they are unwilling to understand that someone who actually knows himself perceives precisely that he is not capable of anything at all

he was a cithara-player, not a man.

It is an infinite merit to be able to despair.

Si quien va a obrar pretende juzgarse antes a sí mismo por el resultado, no comenzará nunca.

Merely accepting that we are lazy, distracted, petty, easily provoked to anger, and inclined to waste our time in ways that we will later regret is not a path to happiness.

Each man is forever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

The strangest thing about her was the way she gazed out the window, as if there was someplace she wanted to be, some other life that was more worth living.

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

Her eyes serious tho. Sad some.

My research was stimulating but solitary

He thinks before he speaks, then says no more than he has to.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

From youth, I have been accustomed to direct the eyes of my spirit inwards rather than outwards; and hence it is very natural, that, to a certain extent, I should be acquainted with man, while of men I have not the smallest knowledge.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.