Quotes About Introspective

I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

I take everything someone says and the way they say it to heart. I just notice everything. I'm very, like, I know what I want. I know what I want to do and what I don't want to do. It may seem like I'm care-free but I'm care-expensive.

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

I'm not very good at being objective about myself.

If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things.

I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

melancholy.

just pop this one out, too

You must be good company for yourself. Not me. My memories. Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.

He was his own best audience; a man couldn't be a sailor and a leader of men all his life without being quite self-contained.

I am the only person I would like to know thoroughly

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

DER SPIEGEL ÖFFNET SICH NUR FÜR DEN, DER SICH SELBST NICHT SIEHT. Was sollte das bedeuten?

Wanamaker learned this lesson early, but I personally had to blunder through this old world for a third of a century before it even began to dawn upon me that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticise themselves for anything no matter how wrong it may be.

He is a moviegoer, though of course he does not go to movies.