Quotes About Introspective

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

I would finally just like to advise you to grow through your development quietly and seriously; you can interrupt it in no more violent manner than by looking outwards, and expecting answer from outside to questions which perhaps only your innermost feeling in your most silent hour can answer.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them.

The only journey is the journey within.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

Ne te quaesiveris extra. (Do not seek for things outside of yourself)

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

It is said to be the age of the first person singular

I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.

Dad, said Will, his voice very faint. Are you a good person? To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself- And, adding it all up...? The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right.

Let me alone, said Mildred. I didn't do anything. Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. how long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

Nothing extraordinary about me except I'm fifty-four, which is always extraordinary to the man inside it.

I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life...

Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious.

We felt meditative, and fit for nothing but placid staring.

how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him into by the way of solitude--utter solitude without a policeman--by the way of silence--utter silence, where no warning voice of a kind neighbour can be heard whispering of public opinion? These little things make all the great difference. When they are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength, upon your own capacity for faithfulness

They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.

She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.

I feel very transparent in myself. I'm more of an observer. I'm interested in what's going on. I'm not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people — but when I'm not with them I don't have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water.

None of the rest of my life figures here.

Much of the time he lay part-dressed on his bed, sipping gin, and thinking, and thinking, - though what it was, of which he thought, he seemed not to know.

Estas pláticas que yo tengo con mi conciencia son a veces muy largas, duran días enteros; por eso no resulta que me ponga a contártelas en esta pobre carta. De verdad, cuídate mucho, come y duerme bien y sueña con los angelitos y no en esta cosa maligna que soy yo. Pero no me olvides.

As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.