Self Quotes

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

~ Ian Mcewan

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

~ André Berthiaume

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

~ Anaïs Nin

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

~ Alan W. Watts

I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt

~ Darynda Jones

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

~ Hermann Hesse

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

~ Suzanne Collins

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

~ Robert Hand

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

~ Hermann Hesse

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

~ Drew Barrymore

I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.

~ Paula Hawkins

I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The type of like I'm shit and the world'd be better off without poor me type that says that but also imagines what everybody'll say at their funeral. I've met types like that on wards. Poor-me-I-hate-me-punish-me-come-to-my-funeral. Then they show you a 20 X 25 glossy of their dead cat. It's all self-pity bullshit. It's bullshit. I didn't have any special grudges. I didn't fail an exam or get dumped by anybody. All these types. Hurt themselves. I didn't want to especially hurt myself. Or like punish. I don't hate myself. I just wanted out. I didn't want to play anymore is all. I wanted to just stop being conscious. I'm a whole different type. I wanted to stop feeling this way. If I could have just put myself in a really long coma I would have done that. Or given myself shock I would have done that. Instead.

~ David Foster Wallace

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

~ Ayn Rand

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

~ Oscar Wilde

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

~ Floriano Martins

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

~ Tim Daly

You're a poem?' I repeated.She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.''Isn't it hard to be three things at the same time?''What's your name?''Enn.''So you are Enn,' she said. 'And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time?

~ Neil Gaiman

Don’t be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.

~ Rebecca Maizel

Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

~ Alan W. Watts

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

~ J.d. Salinger

There's always the option of deciding for yourself who you are and what you'll become.

~ Jodi Meadows

For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s why I’ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary – or perhaps more like mediocre – level. But that’s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

~ Haruki Murakami

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even thoseyou love.

~ Mitch Albom

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

~ Robert Burton

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

~ Alan W. Watts

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

~ George Eliot

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

~ W.h. Auden

Can't get away from your own self.

~ Holly Black

Wherever you go, there you are.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

~ Alan W. Watts

To be me is to be different...

~ Robert Fanney

I’ve always been a slow learner in some areas of my life.mostly the areas known as myself. Or maybe I should say ‘selves.’because the fact is, I’ve never, even as a child, felt I’m only one self, only one person. I’ve always felt I’m quite a few more than one. For example, there’s my jokey self, there’s my morose and fed-up self,there’s my lewd and disgusting self. There’s my clever-clogs self, and my fading-violet-who-cant-make-up-her-mind-about-anything self. There’s my untidy-clothes-everywhere-all-over-my-room self, and my manically tidy self when I want my room to be minimalist and Zen to the nth degree. There’s my confidant, arrogant self and my polite and reasonable and good listener self. There’s my self-righteous self and my wickedly bad self, my flaky self and my bsentimental self. There are selfs I like and selfs I don’t like.there’s my little-girl selfnwhonlikes to play silly games and there’s my old-woman self when I’m quite sure I’m eighty and edging towards geriatric.The self I show in action at any moment depends on where I am, who I’m with, the circumstances of the situation and the mood I’m in.

~ Aidan Chambers

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

~ Floriano Martins

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

~ Kristin Cast

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you.

~ Cassandra Clare

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

~ Joan Didion