Quotes About Introspective

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

I am other I now.

He went up to his room after dinner in order to be alone with his soul: and at every step his soul seemed to sigh: at every step his soul mounted with his feet, sighing in the ascent, through a region of viscid gloom.

James Lee Burke

Sometimes I'm dramatic even to myself.

Yours, neither.

Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your 'rents? Says your sibs?

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

I read about eastern philosophy and religion and existentialism. All that introspective thinking got me thinking about the great beyond. That turned my sights from inwards to outwards, and I started becoming interested in the makeup of the universe, and I started reading about astronomy, planets, and galaxies.

Most women are introspective: "Am I in love? Am I emotionally and creatively fulfilled?" Most men are outrospective: "Did my team win? How's my car?"

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.

I like starting projects in January. That's the best time to start something. It's so inward.

I'm not really into the statements kind of thing.

Ach, I've never been one for big declarations or releasing statements.

I stayed out of the Hollywood limelight wherever I could. That was never something I was comfortable with. That was something that had to be dealt with rather than something I wanted.

For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

I'm an old soul. When I was a kid all the kids would be playing and I would be sitting on the steps with the teachers just watching.

It's strange how you're sometimes forced to assume an unsympathetic view of yourself through borrowed eyes.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

The place at which the contrast between forms of intelligibility is most vividly presented is in the understanding of ourselves.

An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.

These days, people study and train to become psychologists. Lord Buddha's idea is that everybody should become a psychologist. Each of you should know your own mind; you should become your own psychologist. This is definitely possible; every human being has the ability to understand his or her own mind. When you understand your own mind, control follows naturally.