Quotes About Introspective

I prefer to be unsociable and taciturn

He sido mejor con él que conmigo mismo.

She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you see on the beach, and you touch them, and then go inside and don't come out.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don't speak unless I have to.

I don't like to talk about things unless I have to. I don't like to talk a scene to death or overanalyze it, especially if I feel like I have some way in on my own.

My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.

It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.

I'm an unusual man. I know that.

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

I got different moods. Like, if I'm in a good mood, I listen to 'Up' by Thug. If I'm not in a good mood, I'll listen to 'King TROUP' - that's a real emotional one.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

I tended to be the nerdy kid - stood at the back, watching other people having fun - I wasn't always necessarily a big part of the fun myself.

I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.

I was a very strange child.

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Showing 'Get Out' to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.

An introspective man who doesn't keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

The next time you gossip, gossip about yourself and see how you like it." It just creates a mud of negativity, false information, and puts bad atmosphere out.

It never occurred to me that I'm intimidating.