Christina Rossetti Quotes

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

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

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

I've never really been somebody that thinks too much about what I've done.

I like to think of myself as an observer.