Quotes About Introspect

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

I sat there for some time, a young man with more on his mind than in it.

Man's greatness comes from knowing he is wretched.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is then being miserable to know oneself to be miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is miserable.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.

One must know oneself. Even if that does not help in finding truth, at least it helps in running one's life, and nothing is more proper.

Il faut se connaître soi-même: quand cela ne servirait pas à trouver le vrai, cela au moins sert à régler sa vie, et il n'y a rien de plus juste

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.

I paused and examined Myself for signs of imminent madness or tendencies to self-destruction. Finding none, I read further.

I am myself. That is not enough. --from The Jailer, written 17 October 1962

Life happens so hard and fast I sometimes wonder who is me...

No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was

I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

The only way out is in.

Is there no I but I?

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

If you are serious about living a peaceful life, drop all matters pertaining to the world, and pursue all matters pertaining to yourself.

I find it very boring to keep on talking about myself! Which is why I find giving interviews also very boring.

It took me a while to want to do interviews.

I'm an introspective dude.

I wasn't always this introverted.

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are.

I think what I've learned to do is not look inward as much.