Quotes About Introspective

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am.

They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

The heart is the best reflective thinker.

George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.

I'm super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I'm critical of other people, too - I try not to be, though.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it.

Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and thoughtful - so much so that he will request a moment to consider a question, and turn it around in his head to get the shape and weight of it, before answering, occasionally with an excited rush of words in response.

Lennon has an amazing ability to think before she speaks. She doesn't have to constantly be talking. She just thinks, and when she speaks, it's thoughtful. She's very calm. I'm trying to learn that from her.

I like thoughtful girls.

I always saw myself as this quiet, introspective, thoughtful person.

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

I began to think that my life, although profoundly boring on the surface, was quite interesting in literary terms.