Quotes About Introspective

I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience.

I only know myself as a human entity, the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections, and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me which, as it were, is not a part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover

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I don't approve of myself in the least. Sometimes it comes over me — how I should object to myself if I were not myself.

Every one asks me what I 'think' of everything," said Spencer Brydon; "and I make answer as I can—begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn't matter to any of them really," he went on, "for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-and-deliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my 'thoughts' would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself.

He knew soon enough that it was of himself he was afraid, and that even, if he didn't take care, he should infallibly be more so.

I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important... I simply can't think about anything else, that's all. If I could fall in love with a woman that might help some. But I can't find a woman who interests me.

I suffer because of myself. It is my own soul all the time that is bothering me.

There is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

When you're young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.

I was never really a traveler.

I'm not a big traveller.

A moment of sadness is the best time for deepest reflection.

I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical.

You seem a thoughtful sort of man, Will," the cheerful cleric observed. "I hope I am," I replied.

There is no need for a long, persuasive introduction about self-confidence. If you are not a confident person, you already know it.

So you ain't nearly as good as you think you are. What a shock. Look at your clothes and armour – you're chopped to pieces, O mighty assassin.

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.