Edward Gibbon 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.

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

I know the things I say go out of my own mouth and into my own ears.

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

A lot of my music is just self-observation. Like telling you, "Oh man. What did I just do? How much did I just pay for this chain? Why did I do that? Wait a minute." Let me talk about that. Or like, the temptation. Let me talk about that. Let me observe myself.

I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.

In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.

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

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

I've always been pretty serious and introspective.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Half my life is an act of revision.

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?

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

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

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

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

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.