Karl Kraus Quotes

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I talk to myself a lot.

It's kind of weird talking about yourself all the time.

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

I feel like so much of my life is about a conversation I'm having with myself. I do interact with other people, but often I'm more interested in what I'm learning in the relationship I have with myself.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I find myself fascinating.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

I love talking about myself.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.