Quotes About Self-awareness

that was only because he was mere

She found she had become two different people. Each one spoke differently, dressed differently, and ate different things, laughed at different jokes, had different interests. If one had met the other, they probably wouldn't have liked each other.

When she thinks back to the long wasted years that she has devoted to her marriage, Frances wonders whether she was in possession of all her faculties. She was letting her life slip by and doing nothing with it. They didn't even have children.

Well I gave a lot of time to women and if I had my time again I don't think I would do it that way. I was letting my neurosis monopolise my life.

Every human life has a secret essence, it's a secret even to the possessor, because you don't know what to make of it.

I suppose that all of us have a primitive prompter or commentator within, who from earliest years has been advising us, telling us what the real world is. There is such a commentator in me. I have to prepare the ground for him. From this source come words, phrases, syllables; sometimes only sounds, which I try to interpret, sometimes whole paragraphs, fully punctuated.

Ah, think not meanly of yourselves, and sink into no common mass of being, as if your individuality were ever destructible or not all significant. You are bounded and confined by the impassable limits of that mystery we call "ourselves."

You can be nobody but yourself. You cannot hide away, nor be lost in any crowd. You carry the glory and the burden of your individuality.

I don't mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking—I'm bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please?

It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.

my therapist constantly tried to convince me that the networking was a displacement activity to help me avoid dealing with my own emotional issues.

What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit.

People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems.

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

And I twisted it wrong just to make it right Had to leave myself behind

But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life.

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.

There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.

Maybe only my fraudulence was fraudulent.

I imagined the passengers could see me, imagined I was a passenger that could see me looking up at myself looking down.

But there are no grown-ups; that's what you must grow up to know fully.

If he had the language, he wouldn't express himself with symptoms.

Klaus's charm, at least for me, was that his voice already sounded like an imitation of itself; Klaus was an actor bemused to be playing Klaus. And yet the effect of this doubling was generous, self-deprecating;

a Hungarian girl with a completely unjustified belief in her own genius.