Quotes About Self-awareness

Do you think it's ever safe to say one's happy?

He knew the vulnerability of his strength.

Oh how stupid I am, he said to himself, using words which he had used ever so often since he was a child. At that moment it seemed to him that his life had consisted of one blunder after another, and now aged thirty-one he was well on into the stupidest of all.

Her anger was against herself, for her frivolity and her blindness.

What a terribly complex thing his life must be to be able so utterly to surprise its owner!

Henry's joy left him abruptly and he began anxiously to think about himself.

Is that a quotation? Only from me.

I must have been changing though, and becoming, though I didn't know it, what I am now. I can't have become all this, and there's really a lot of it, in a few days, can I?

He thought, this is hell, not being able to live with oneself.

Of course you don't know yourself, lucky old you. I just know myself too bloody well.

I have never been more sane, coldly sane, self-interestedly sane. I am a woman.

Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.

History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you being one. This is easier as a sober artist in Santa Barbara than as an alcoholic jailbird in Leith.

I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them

You can't lie to your soul.

We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up.

When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.

He...breathed in heavy gulps of air to prove to himself that he was three-dimensional.

I'm never less alone than when alone. And he sighed, for he knew himself to be a victim of his own character.

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.

Galaxy! When can a man know he is not a puppet? How can a man know he is not a puppet?

Does everyone just believe what he wants to? As long as possible. Sometimes longer. What about you? You mean, am I human? Certainly. I don't believe I'm really old. I believe I'm quite attractive. I believe you seek out my company because you think I'm charming - even when you insist on turning the conversation to physics.

People say 'It's as plain as the noise on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone hold a mirror up to you?

All right, Schwartz, tackle my mind now. Go as deep as you want. I was born on Baronn in the Sirius Sector. I lived my life in an atmosphere of anti-Terrestrialism in the formative years, so I can't help what flaws and follies lie at the roots of my subconscious. But look on the surface and tell me if, in my adult years, I have not fought bigotry in myself. Not in others; that would be easy. But in myself, and as hard as I could.