Quotes About Introspective

that is rare, isn't it? To be explained by yourself, by what you are and what you do, and not by what you've done, or were, or by what people think you might be or might become. I

don't know what to tell you," he said slowly. "I have not had time to think much about myself. Wherever I have been—at least until now, I have been mostly alone. The others were always much bigger—much older." He paused to consider himself in the past. "Older in years, that is," he amended. "I've always been too old for myself." She looked at him thoughtfully. "Then you have an old soul.

Is it me you're describing, or yourself?

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

quietly. She didn't like being reminded

But knowing me the way I do (now that sounds weird!)

You can't walk out on yourself.

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

I go through a loop in which I notice all the ways I am...self-centered and careerist and not true to standards and values that transcend my own petty interests...but then I countenance the fact here at least here I am worrying about it; so then I feel better about myself...but this soon becomes a vehicle for feeling superior to imagined Others...I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am--so where does that put me.

A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. Reading is borrowing!

I read in self-defense.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

You're a quiet one. You keep to yourself, but when you speak up, you tell the truth: in your music and every other way.

He was an average-looking, hard working fellow who was more comfortable reading about people in books than socializing with them.

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way.

What I really do when I write you is follow myself, and I'm doing it right now: I'm following myself without knowing what it will lead me to. Sometimes following myself is so hard. Because of following something that's still so nebulous. Sometimes I end up stopping.

Clarice Lispector