Quotes About Introspective

There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private that's me.

It is necessary to understand who you are

She went looking for beauty but never looked inside herself.

The life you have built around you is a reflection of what is within you. If you don't like what you see, go inside.

Hold a retrospective approach in your spirit to figure out your loopholes and try to forge out for filling them for a lucrative self growth

now Dolly couldn't seem to stop herself from asking, Is this it? Is this my life?

Why would you want any other, when you're a world within a world?

Just at the moment, her life seemed oddly thin

Cu fiecare zi sîntem mai singuri. Ce grea si ce usoara trebuie sa fie ultima!

Eu unul cred c? o carte trebuie s? fie realmente o ran?, trebuie s? r?scoleasc? într-un fel sau altul viaÅ£a cititorului. Când scriu o carte, ideea mea e s? trezesc pe cineva, s?-l biciuiesc.

Daca vreun om s-a devorat pe el insusi,acela sunt eu.

We must beware of whatever insights we have into ourselves. Our self-knowledge annoys and paralyzes our daimon-this is where we should look for the reason Socrates wrote nothing.

De ce nu putem r?mâne închiÈ™i în noi înÈ™ine? De ce umbl?m dup? expresie È™i dup? form?, încercând s? ne golim de conÈ›inuturi È™i s? sistematiz?m un proces haotic È™i rebel? N-ar fi mai fecund? o abandonare în fluiditatea noastr? interioar?, f?r? gândul unei obiectiv?ri, sorbind doar cu o voluptate intim? toate fierberile È™i agitaÈ›iile l?untrice?

Each being is a broken hymn

The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.

This is how we recognize the man who has tendencies toward an inner quest: he will set failure above any success, he will even seek it out, unconsciously of course. This is because failure, always essential, reveals us to ourselves, permits us to see ourselves as God sees us, whereas success distances us from what is most inward in ourselves and indeed in everything.

The people inside us bears the responsibility for our excesses, our extravagances: what is more plebeian than a sentiment?

He was quiet in the way people are when they believe the world would get along just fine without them.

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

It would do the world good if every man in it would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Away from people, who blunt the edges of his personality: away from books and magazines, which give him his thinking pre-digested: away on a long walk, where he could face the world with a naked mind and compel himself to think some things through by himself. Most of the world's progress has come out of periods of such loneliness.

Try thinking more if just for your own sake

Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their social circles and memories and mores. I'm one of those who draw creative energy from the opposite.

I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.

I'm a reasonably articulate individual.