Quotes About Introspect

To me, self-description is a calamity.

I hate celebrating birthdays.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

I don't mind to speak about myself until a certain point, but I think there's also stuff which is for myself that nobody has to know.

I don't think it would be very difficult for me to open the chapters of my life because there isn't much there.

It surprises me that more people don't take a look in the mirror a little more often and assess their own relationships.

smoke if you had anything to smoke, and think if you had anything to think about that didn't make you feel worse than not thinking at all.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

You know, the thing is with people who never talk, the thing is you always suppose they're harbouring some enormous secret. But, just possibly, the secret is, they have absolutely nothing to say.

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

Man is the dwarf of himself.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

Beloved brother, let us not forget that man can never get away from himself. [Ger., Lass uns, geliebter Bruder, nicht vergessen, Dass von sich selbst der Mensch nicht scheiden kann.]

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

Show me the man who isn't interested in discussing himself.

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.