Quotes About Introspective

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

I'd always cared extremely little for public opinion because I was always obsessed with my own opinion and hence had no time at all for the public's.

The only advice i can offer to any thinking person is to kill himself before the millennium

We're constantly correcting, and correcting ourselves, most rigorously, because we recognize at every moment that we did it all wrong (wrote it, thought it, made it all wrong), acted all wrong, how we acted all wrong, that everything to this point in time is a falsification, so we correct this falsification, and then we again correct the correction of this falsification and we correct the result of the correction of a correction andsoforth.

Tih sam se zadnjih godina prije Rima bio usredoto?io još samo na samoga sebe i pritom najgrublje i najneoprostivije zanemario samoga sebe. Prije svega sam umno, ali i tjelesno oronuo. Postao sam skroz-naskroz oronuo ?ovjek. Skroz-naskroz bolestan, netrpeljiv, nepodnošljivo sumnji?av kao malo tko, skoro sam se ugušio u neprestanom samopromatranju i razglabanju o sebi. Bio sam posve zaboravio da osim moga užasnoga postoji i neki drugi svijet koji nije samo užasan.

Sólo he creído siempre estar solo, pero nunca he estado solo... sólo ahora estoy realmente solo...

When sorrow ceases to be speculative sleep sees her opportunity.

The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions which might otherwise be easily dispelled by a glance, a laugh, an exchange of comments, concern him unduly, they sink into mute depths, take on significance, become experiences, adventures, emotions.

Who am I to know my own  motives. But I did foolhardy things.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

You should mock yourself and rise above this.

Let us therefore verify what we have said above concerning the truth, beginning with ourselves.

If I have served you as the representative of certain objects, you have led me from a too rigorous observation of external things and their relations back into myself. You have taught me to view the many-sidedness of the inner man with more justice.43

As an introvert he had a better relation to ideas than to things.

I cannot employ the language of science to trace this process of growth in myself, for I cannot experience myself as a scientific problem.

Solitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiences—wherever you happen to

Why had she asked a mirror—or anyone for that matter—to tell her who she was?

Am I going crazy…as in crazier than I already am?

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.

I am not a very nice character. You must get to know me some time.