Quotes About Self-awareness

For the first time in her life she felt weak with wanting. With need. Yet at the same time, she did feel sort of attractive. She was aware of herself as a woman, as feminine, when she'd always felt masculine. He'd given her that, and she'd be forever grateful.

Bottom line, dolce core, that's who I am. When the cops can't do something to protect citizens, it's my turn. You have to decide if you can live with who I am. The real me.

She wasn't certain what he was going to work on, being a caveman all the time, or trying not to be a caveman most of the time.

I have a long way to go before I will be normal again." She burst out laughing. "No one has said you ever were normal, Jacques.

Apparently, I was going to have to get used to the idea of being stared at and inspected. People were going to be interested and inquisitive, I decided, and I would just have to accept it as logical, if I was going to function in the world at all.

A.R.'s very apparatus that determines color was damaged, he didn't know what colors were (except in an abstract sense). Denying an objective sensory or motor deficit due to neurological damage is a form of agnosia termed anosognosia. It is really a deficit in self-awareness: not knowing what it is that one no longer knows.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images,' wrote Cocteau.

I hate hating myself. It's boring. But there's nobody else to hate.

Throwing himself a party was like rubbing his nose in his failure to connect with people.

There is a special place in hell for people who bring children into this world solely for the sake of seeming better than they are.

I do not deny my past. I have been a great wanderer from what is right, but at least I know it and hope that the knowledge has not come too late.

I know quite well that I can appear insufferable and annoying. Worse than that, I know that I can appear insufferable and annoying without intending to do so. (An old definition of a gentleman: someone who is never rude except on purpose.)

Everyone has a little book in them, and in most cases, that is where it should stay.

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

You don't so much as become an atheist as find out that's what you are. There's no moment of conversion. You don't suddenly think 'I don't believe this anymore.' You essentially find you don't believe it.

I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

By the way, if you knew how you sounded when you hissed, you wouldn't do it: you sound like such berks when you do that.

The challenge with love is not allowing your strengths to negate themselves.

People began to stand up at meetings and orate about how they felt, not about what or how they thought, and about who they were rather than what (if anything) they had done or stood for.

You don't become an atheist so much as you find out that's what you are.

I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about.

I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of?It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood