Quotes About Introspective

Don't tell me he's bisexual! Don't tell me this is more of the guy in the hallway! Don't tell me he wants us to have it off together, Philip Roth fucking Philip Roth! That, I'm afraid, is a form of masturbation too fancy even for me.

Look, I've got more personalities than I can use already. All you are is one too many.

Sembrava non capire o, anche in un momento di stanchezza, non ammettere che avere dei limiti non era poi una cosa così vergognosa, e che lui stesso non era una casa di pietra di centosettant'anni, il cui peso gravasse su imperturbabili travi di quercia: che era, insomma, qualcosa di più transitorio e misterioso.

the complete man - as unimpressive as he is unimpressed

Yes, alone we are, deeply alone, and always, in store for us, a layer of loneliness even deeper. There is nothing we can do to dispose of that. No, loneliness shouldn't surprise us, as astonishing to experience as it may be. You can try turning yourself inside out, but all you are then is inside out and lonely instead of inside in and lonely.

he laughs but it's a laugh he has to think about first.

solipsistic, adj. Go ahead, I thought. Go ahead. Go ahead. I got stuck there. Go ahead. Go ahead. Because I genuinely couldn't see anything after that.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

Enemies, like friends, told you who you were.

There's just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It's not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren't there.

I became aware of a voice inside my head. [...] It was only later that I realized that this voice was my own thinking, that this moment of anguish was my first inkling that I was a ceaseless monologue trapped within myself.

One discovers weeping—one's weeping personality—only upon weeping. It is a strange discovery, not only to others but to oneself

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.

I'm not an activist.

'Al Green Explores Your Mind' is really kind of a very personal record for me.

A background person is all I've been all my life.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself.

I don't analyse myself.

I have, by nature, an analytical mind.

I will not become analytical about my work.

I've always been an analytical person.

I'm not a very analytical person.