Quotes About Introspective

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

I'm not good, I'm just quiet

Je suis mystique au fond, et je ne crois à rien

I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

Quaestio Mihi Factus Sum" ("I am become a question to myself")

My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol of any description, but I had never yet set foot inside a theatre, or gone to a race course I had never seen, nor held a billiard cue, nor touched a card.

It's tough being me.

I may seem a tough guy, but I'm also very sentimental.

I'm a pretty deep guy. I'm not a tough guy at all. People think I give this persona that I'm thick-skinned, but I'm not and when I'm writing songs, that comes out.

In the worst memoirs, you can feel the author justifying himself - forgiving himself - in every paragraph. In the best memoirs, the author is tougher on him- or herself than his or her readers will ever be.

I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.

Stevie stared out the front window for several seconds ruminating on that bit of information before admitting, "Dear God. I'm terrified of myself.

He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six-dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York.

She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on.

Something seemed to open out. There was a little inner world created, always, every day, being re-created, and in it there was a kind of new security.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

I have always been considerably addicted to my own company.

Eu cautam o cale care sa ma duca inlauntrul unui om.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

"Et Tu, Babe" was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it's my whole life.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.