Quotes About Introspective

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.

With her make-up-free complexion and nondescript brown hair gathered in a scrappy up-do, she looks like someone for whom there are more important things than being thought pretty. She might be an academic, or an assistant in the better sort of a bookshop. But there's something about her—a stillness, a fixity of gaze—that tells another story.

Novels hadn't interested her for a long time now: not for a moment could she tear her mind away from her own life and concentrate on somebody else.

Sometimes I think you can look at a person and know they are full of words.

Utter ruin provokes soul-searching in even the least reflective of men.

But there was no wound she could give me that I had not already given myself.

But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.

The subtlest of all differences between human beings has to to with their attitude to themselves when they are thinking about themselves. Some caress themselves when they are alone and consciously dote on themselves, whereas others hold themselves apart from themselves with a certain despotic contempt for themselves—and this, too, even in the midst of their liveliest sensations.

I just don't know. Maybe I'm good, but that goddamn scale would hesitate a long time before tilting that way.

He was a quiet man, not lonely and not shy, but cerebral and serious.

An aura of fate had marked him. He moved slowly; he often appeared to be lost in thought, or in his imagination—as if his future were predetermined, and he wasn't resisting it.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Introspect. Dive deep into your own Life and think. Think how have I lived? How can I make my Life better?

but there was no wound that she could give me that i had not already given myself

But he was a harp with only one string, and the note he played was himself.

She looked up to stare at her reflection in the mirror, as if she'd never seen her face before either.