Quotes About Introspective

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I'm not a gentleman and I'm not a scientist.

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

I try as hard as I can to write from a personal place and be genuine.

I don't know where this glamorous image and all came from. I don't find myself glamorous or bold.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I'm not a social guy. I don't like the constant media glare on everything I do.

I'm quite gloomy. I just am one of those people, vaguely lugubrious.

Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

First mark of the self-preservative instinct of the great psychologist: he never seeks himself, he has no eyes for himself, no interest or curiosity in himself

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

We are always only in our own company.

Like a deep well is the solitary. Easy it is to throw a stone in; but if it sink to the bottom, tell me, who will want to fetch it out again?

I'm not, like, a gregarious guy. I don't walk into a room and want to engage people. I'm just not wired that way. One on one, I'm fine.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I was not a witty girl.

I think Finns in general, we are quite calm and I think we're mentally in general quite strong, and we don't mind to be alone. We are lonely wolves, a lot of us.

I have a lot of sides to my personality and what you see on 'The Hills' is a strong, independent woman, which I am. But I also have a sensitive side that I don't show too much.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.