Bertrand Russell Quotes

I always saw myself as this quiet, introspective, thoughtful person.

I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

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

I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.

You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?

In solitude, where we are least alone.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

The world always looks straights ahead; as for me, I turn my gaze inward, I fix it there and keep it busy. Everyone looks in front of him: as for me, I look inside me: I have no business but with myself; I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself. Others...they always go forward; as for me, I roll about in myself.

Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.