Quotes About Introspective

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

you are a narcissist. That is the raison dêtre of the journal. Journal writing is a disease. But it's all right. It's very interesting. I don't know of any journal more interesting. I don't know of any woman writing so frankly.

Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

I have a mind which is bigger than all the rest of me, an inexorable conscience.

Nós somos juízes muito mais severos dos nossos próprios atos. Julgamos nossos pensamentos, nossas intenções secretas e até nossos sonhos...

as I have the tragic sense of life these days

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection

So far, she'd been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

His eyes had the ebb of his liver in them and he bore the air of a man who looks right at you and only sees the last of himself.

That's going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself. (Tender is the Night)

we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

I always feel as if describing how I feel and think about myself is too complicated—it's as if I can hear the whole conversation in advance, and I know all of the twists and turns it will take before they happen, so why bother? The effort just isn't worth it.

Never examine too much anyone without reasons that you would become yourself a question mark.