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Quotes About Introspective

To put on the test others is very simple and easy while putting oneself into it, is the most difficult job, one who does that, it recognizes itself, it means one gains its way.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Today I know what I felt, but then I didn't understand. At that instant I had only an unpleasant impression, as if he had given the signal and from then on all I could do was to sink by degrees into repugnance. In reality I felt above all a blaze of hatred toward myself, because I was there, because I had no excuses, because it was I who had decided to come, because it seemed to me that I could not retreat.
~ Elena Ferrante
tenía miedo de que me acusaran de ser como era de hecho, distraída y ausente, concentrada en mí misma.
~ Elena Ferrante
soon it seemed to me that her principal
~ Elena Ferrante
What was I like, really?
~ Elena Ferrante
Byla jsem jediný možný zdroj pÃ…â"¢íbÄ›hu, nemohla jsem a ani jsem nechtÄ›la pátrat mimo sebe.
~ Elena Ferrante
No quiero ser así, me decía, especialmente en el duermevela; sin embargo, esa era yo, y percatarme de que no conseguía manifestarme más que de ese modo —áspera, criticona— me impulsaba a veces no a corregirme, sino, con un placer perverso, a ser peor.
~ Elena Ferrante
Nunca aclaré nada. Esas son cosas de uno, de adentro, como los recuerdos. Los recuerdos no son de nadie. Nomas de uno. O como los años que nomas a uno le hacen.
~ Elena Poniatowska
But observers have generally noted that such people are greatly absorbed with their own thoughts even when in company. Winnicott's paradoxical description of 'being alone in the presence of others may be relevant not only to the infant with its mother, but also to those who are capable of intense concentration and preoccupation with their own inner processes even when surrounded by other people.
~ Anthony Storr
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Before I travelled my road I was my road.
~ Antonio Porchia
Some people are so lonely that the only way they know to feel not being alone is to see oneself solely in one or other ways always.
~ Anuj Somany
The only person you are qualified to pronounce unreasonable is yourself.
~ Arnold Kling
I am really puzzled to understand myself.
~ Lincoln Steffens
I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.
~ Mark Duplass
I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.
~ Madlib
I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
~ Faith Evans
I never really necessarily liked being quiet.
~ Alessia Cara
I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.
~ Lee Trevino
I was pretty quiet as a child.
~ James Hetfield
I'm the quiet bass player.
~ Colin Hanks
I've always been a quiet person.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur
I'm so quiet if you don't know me.
~ DeMar DeRozan