Quotes about Introspective

For America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without;

In school, I sat in the back, seldom raising my hand and never raising my voice. But the absence of verbal expression did not mean I was dull to the needs of others. Didn't mean I couldn't think and feel. Didn't absorb. I thought and felt just fine. Absorbed like a sponge. My peripheral vision was twenty-ten. I cried when strangers hurt. Laughed when others smiled.

people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

I felt enough of the effect of withdrawing from the world then, to see that it led to an antisocial and misanthropic state of mind, which severely punished him who gives in to it. And it will be a lesson I never shall forget as to myself.

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

It seems to me now that my life is writing, be it only words without meaning...When I am 33 I shall put a bullet straight through me.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

She caught herself thinking: She's functioning well in an emergency, I'll be all right with her—and realized that she was thinking of herself.

Each person should examine his own work … not in respect to someone else. For each person will have to carry his own load. Galatians 6:4—5

What I am looking for is not out there. It is in me.

I look singularly to myself, I am right nought;