Quotes About Introspective

You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.

Let's not talk about how I am. It's a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

A faint frown wrinkled his broad forehead.

Even worse, introspection – for him at least – was a funnel in sand, a spider waiting at the bottom. And Coll well knew he was quite capable of devouring himself.

There is an old joke in Finland, a country proud of its collective introspective character and shyness. "How do you know when a Finnish man likes a woman? He stares at her shoes instead of his.

For in this country, which of all civilizations has been devoted to the most exquisite consideration of the interior life—of the form, structure, and purpose of the self—we are individually multiple, severally alone.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

You see I'm a very personal man. I might have a very large exterior but I am basically quite a sober and simple man.

I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.

I'm the least sociable person ever.

I'm not a sociable person. I don't like to talk.

I'm not a social butterfly.

I don't party or drink or have a social life.

Despite my high profile on social media, I'm a private person.

I don't live my life in a social way. I don't put everything out on social media. I don't live that reality lifestyle. At the same time, I've always been private, ever since I was in high school.

I don't party or socialize.

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain.

Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.

I don't club, I don't really go out, and there's a lot of stuff I don't really do socially.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.