Quotes About Introspective

I'm an intense person. My own vision of life has always been heavy.

That's right - sometimes hell is us. Sometimes we are the cause of our own difficulties. And if we can step out of our own way, something astonishing happens.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

You know Gabri, he wears his heart on his sleeve.' In fact, there were times Olivier wondered whether Gabri hadn't been born inside out.

A mind with absolutely no insight into itself, a mind filled with purpose and delusion.

It seemed Yolande had become so self-absorbed she no longer existed. She'd finally absorbed herself.

leaden and laden by the recent past.

GENERAL STATEMENT FOR ALL CONCERNED: I do not wish you to be perturbed in any way by my current uncommunicative behaviour. I wish it to be known that I am not pursuing any friendships at the moment because I can not think of anything to say and I suspect I am bad for people. I am too egotistically involved in my own decay to focus on the troubles and triumphs of others...

Everything in life should be done with reflection.

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were--I have not seen As others saw.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

Solitude is the only thing that will never help you make your character.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

This isn't higher education studying itself.

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist.

I'm kind of an emotional exhibitionist.