Quotes About Introspective

I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

There was no himself in himself.

Deep in the leather armchair of his soul

Remember, the principle to apply is, as far as I am concerned, the problem is me. I am the place to start. Others' responses will depend mostly on what they see in me. The most important move is for me to make the most important move.

Like most visionaries, he's not particularly observant of the material world.

Effi sente sì il bisogno di parlare, ma non quello di dire tutto ciò che le pesa sul cuore, e molte questioni le risolve tra sé e sé. È espansiva e chiusa nello stesso tempo, quasi si nascondesse; insomma è un carattere tutto particolare.

I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't.

I am the worst judge of my books.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

I don't go around making conversation, I just kind of stick to myself.

I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my mother was always shouting, 'Go outside!' But she shouted it at all of us. I think I was just kind of... rather an introverted child, probably.

I think people are surprised that I'm not - I think people come up to talk to me, and they think I'm going to be really morose. And I am, but I do that by myself - no one wants to see that. It's not really a phoniness; I just kind of keep it to myself. So I think people are surprised when they come up to talk to me and I hug them.

As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

I don't really go anywhere. I'm kind of low key.

We wanted 'At Dawn' to be what it was: kinda spaced-out.

Everyone should know yourself. It can be an insult, but know yourself is just it. It's exactly what it sounds like.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

Solitude and inaction are unraveling me right down to the core.

I haven't even read everything I wrote.

It's just me.

Why are you so quiet?" he asks. Because, you want to say, I am a person with an interior world that you know nothing about.

I did not think about what sort of people might read it. In fact, I was writing it for myself.