Mental Introspection Quotes

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

I'm one of those introverted people who simply feels a lot better after spending time alone thinking through ideas and emotions. This is a sign, I've come to think, of a kind of emotional disturbance - a reaction to inner fragility. I wish I were more able to just act and do, rather than constantly have to retreat and examine and think.

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

You don't throw your life away Going Inside You get to know who's watching you And besides you resides in your body

I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I'm always kind of in my head thinking.

I am a mystery to myself.

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

I am moving deeper into my own brain.