Quotes About Introspective

The man just stood there, looking at him; and Elliott had the weirdest sense of being listened to, studied. It made him aware of how inattentive most human beings were in general.

I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace seemed a meditative winding, and what I was winding was like yarn on an oblong skein, softly enfolding a quiet center that was myself.

He could not change his nature, could not help being cautious, deliberate, introspective, not traits to be scorned by any means, but traits that seemed dull, bland—even to him—when compared with Davydd's hell-for-leather dazzle.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life.

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.

I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.

He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.

If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.

It ( In My Life ) was the first song that I wrote that was really, consciously about my life.... up until then, it had been all glib and throwaway.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

The only way out is in.

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

Richard II is something of a plaster saint and knows it only too well. But it is a rewarding part, with lovely things to say, and I thought it suited my personality.

he was a little dark, a little private, Hunt was okay

Es lo que hacía como terapeuta: pedir a los demás que buscaran respuestas en su mundo interior.

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

We went to our separate corners to muse, and mope, and stare thoughtfully out the viewports.

His grin turns into a thoughtful pursing of the lips, and he actually seems to consider my question.

The common factor linking all of my unhappy romances is me.