Quotes about Introspective

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

After all, what is an individual?

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

People do say that now to know oneself is a deception and an imperfection, but often they are unwilling to understand that someone who actually knows himself perceives precisely that he is not capable of anything at all

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

Secondly, [man] should weigh his abilities-or rather lack of abilities.

It is a great thing to know your vices.

Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.

I've known that about myself, that I've had two sides: one that's pretty tactical, down to earth, aware. There's also a really spacey side. But I realized they're kinda the same thing.

I'm not good at talking about myself.