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Quotes About Introspective

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.
~ Claire Danes
I'm pretty neurotic.
~ Paul Wesley
For those of us with an inward turn of mind, which is another name for melancholy introspection, the beginning of a new year inevitably leads to thoughts about both the future and the past.
~ Michael Dirda
I see no point in talking about myself unnecessarily.
~ Akshaye Khanna
She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.
~ Nick Hornby
To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.
~ Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
We are so miserably shallow Josh, how do we stand ourselves?
~ Nora Roberts
Oh, it was just me—that's why
~ Nora Roberts
My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
there is something in it, inasmuch as logotherapy, in comparison with psychoanalysis, is a method less retrospective and less introspective. Logotherapy focuses rather on the future, that is to say, on the meanings to be fulfilled by the patient in his future. (Logotherapy, indeed, is a meaning-centered psychotherapy.) At the same time, logotherapy defocuses all the vicious-circle formations and feedback mechanisms which play such a great role in the development of neuroses.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one.
~ Virginia Woolf
You're infinitely simpler than I am… That's the difficulty.
~ Virginia Woolf
I like reading my own writing. It seems to fit me closer than it did before.
~ Virginia Woolf
Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic. He is here.
~ Virginia Woolf
Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is the romantic. He is here.
~ Virginia Woolf
There was something unusual about him, or something behind him. It might be that he was bookish - never came to see you without taking up the book on the table (he was now reading, with his bootlaces trailing on the floor); or that he was a gentleman, which showed itself in the way he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and in his manners of course to women.
~ Virginia Woolf
To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
~ Virginia Woolf
Magában lehet, egyedül. S mostanában erre gyakran van szüksége - hogy gondolkozzék. Hogy ne kelljen beszélnie, egyedül legyen. Az egész lét, minden, amit teszünk, dallamos, ragyogó, lelkesítÅ', elillan, s ünnepélyes érzéssel önmagunkká, legigazibb lényünkké zsugorodunk, a sötétség ék alakú, mások számára láthatatlan magvává.
~ Virginia Woolf
sembrava fosse diventato fisicamente quello che loro avevano segretamente custodito nella loro mente – quella solitudine che era per entrambi la verità delle cose.
~ Virginia Woolf
But how describe the world seen without a self?
~ Virginia Woolf
Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Tým chcem povedaÃ…Â¥, že som ten najnepraktickejÅ¡í ?lovek pod slnkom.
~ Vladimir Nabokov