67 Introspection Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Mar 4, 2026

A selection of introspection quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

41 I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, enjoy them, and dominate them.

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

42 Was insincerity such a terrible thing? Dorian thought not. It was merely a method by which we could multiply our personalities.

George Sanders as Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

43 Know. Do I know you? Before I could answer that, I should have to see your soul.

Lowell Gilmore as Basil Hallward in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

44 There's nothing wrong with the mirror. I look in it often. I sit here and look at these four walls. Then for a change, I look at them in the mirror.

Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig in Dead of Night (1945)

45 I was wondering as I was wandering then I was pundering as I was pondering. And somehow I got back to wondering all over again.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in Piglet's Big Game (2003)

46 I have some important thinking to do.

Owl From Winnie The Pooh in Piglet's Big Game (2003)

47 You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

48 This is not a psychotic episode. This is a cleansing moment of clarity.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

49 I feel on the verge of some great, ultimate truth.

Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (1976)

50 And I miss my home because I'm beginning to get scared shitless. Because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than it is to the beginning. And death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me with definable features.

William Holden as Max Schumacher in Network (1976)