Quotes About Introspective

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.

INTROVERT PREFERS TO BE ALONE OR IN SMALL GROUPS; IS QUICKLY EXHAUSTED BY PARTIES AND OTHER LARGE SOCIAL SITUATIONS

That mania for doing things in private. Which meant, in practice, not doing anything at all. For what was there that one could do in private.

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

He looked up at Mathis to see how bored he was getting with these introspective refinements of what, to Mathis, was a simple question of duty. Mathis smiled back at him.

Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something about yourself.

But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky

I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself.

he went back upstairs to stare at himself in the bathroom mirror. Who was he? Captain of the second fifteen? An abject housebound halfwit in his pyjamas? He didn't know.

K. Thiagarajan is a painfully shy young man. But he is the human personification of the idiom 'Still waters run deep.'

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

At the end of the day, you know yourself best.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit introspective, a little bit morbid. I was small for my age, so I was bullied and that kind of stuff.

Talking about myself is difficult for me. It's anti my true nature.

Trust me: if I had something interesting to say about myself, I would.

I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes.

In my life, I don't need to have my face plastered everywhere. It's not really something I want.

I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.