Quotes About Introspect

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

The common factor linking all of my unhappy romances is me.

There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.

those who are willing to enter the woods of self-examination in order to retrieve what was never really lost.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.

Hamlet is a little daunting.

if I examine myself closely enough, I find hints of every objectionable quality known to man.

I definitely have a little Woody Allen inside of me. That is true.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?

The self is me, the me is I, and that's all that's left.

It's what I've always said. To be alive is a reflection on one's character.

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

Like everyone else I have at my disposal only three means of evaluating human existence: the study of self, which is the most difficult and most dangerous method, but also the most fruitful; the observation of our fellowmen, who usually arrange to hide secrets where none exist; and books, with the particular errors of perspective to which they inevitably give rise.

Moreover, it frequently happens with men that they fail to analyse these things, and do not make out for themselves any clear definition of what their feelings are or what they mean. We hear that a man has behaved badly to a girl, when the behaviour of which he has been guilty has resulted simply from want of thought.

Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?

Indeed!" I murmured.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.)

we are not aware of what is most essentially bad in us.