Quotes About Introspective

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.

At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful honesty, he sometimes believed he was a failure in all what was important

It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.'

In the past I led such a mysterious life. I didn't give interviews.

What was special about Leonard Cohen's work was its calm mystery.

I'm not an intensely mystical person. I don't do numerology. I'm a Cancer, but that's as far as I go.

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people.

By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.

Take a few minutes now and see your current circumstances- your physical condition, your emotional condition, your possessions, your financial condition, where and how you live, your relationships, the situations surrounding your life, and the way you believe other people see you- as mirrors showing you Who You Are.

I had gone back to being myself. But my self did not exist

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.

I am a quite unnecessarily complicated piece of mechanism

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

Entscheidend ist: Ich bin klein und untröstlich.

Now, can we please abandon such weighty conversation? I have become thoroughly exhausted with thoughts of fate, destiny, justice, and other, equally gloomy topics over the past few days. As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.

Not that he felt any particular love for himself, but his dislike of others induced him to make the best of his own company.

We violate no body so much as our own: towards it we display the perversity of the cat that constantly rips its wounds open.

Of a disposition at once unsociable and talkative, desiring to see no one, yet wishing to converse with some one, he got out of the difficulty by talking to himself.

D'une complexion farouche et bavarde, ayant le désir de ne voir personne et le besoin de parler à quelqu'un, il se tirait d'affaire en se parlant à lui-même. Quiconque a vécu solitaire sait à quel point le monologue est dans la nature. La parole intérieure démange. Haranguer l'espace est un exutoire. Parler tout haut et tout seul, cela fait l'effet d'un dialogue avec le dieu qu'on a en soit.