Quotes About Introspective

If you want to take your own measure, put aside your money, your estates, your honors, and look inside yourself. At present you are taking the word of others for what you are. Seneca, Epistles 80.10

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

The solitary operatic feast, the banquet for one, onanism through the ear: taking an evening out of my life to listen to Simon Boccanegra, I feel I am locked in the bathroom eating a quart of ice cream, that I have lost all my friends, that I am committing some violently antisocial act, like wearing lipstick to school.

He has the expression of someone who wishes the rain would stop.

Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

That favorite subject, Myself.

I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror.

Too much time alone had done something peculiar to his heart: A confused and unreliable organ at best, it now held something akin to joy.

The rare few, who, early in life, have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

My best critic is me, too late.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

Looking back over nearly a quarter of a century, she saw that that had been the characteristic of her life -passivity, adaptability to others.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.

People who talk to themselves on the phone," said Ford, "never learn anything to their advantage.

For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation.

He was at the stage of a meal when one becomes philosophic.

It was not until I was over twenty that I realised that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually I was quite as quick or quicker than the average. Inarticulate I shall always be. It is probably one of the causes that have made made me a writer.

Reflection had never been Mrs Oliver's strong point.

Isn't that her problem? That she lets his thoughts crowd in on hers - crowd out hers...

Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside. What d'you think?

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.