Quotes About Self

There's a perverse and bitter joy in feeling unique, but you pay dearly. Morrissey

There's a famous quote which goes something like, 'You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be'. Maybe there's some truth to that. We like to think that society shapes us, but I don't think that that's the way it happens. Select, 1991

Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to rebuild ourselves. Over time, over the course of many books, we construct a deeper, truer self.

How can I sing? Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same. I empty myself of my life and my life remains.

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.

In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

Pino shrugged. "Maybe he liked the sound of it. Pino Lella." Mimo snorted. "You do live in a fantasy world." They

They kill people, and I'm a people.

I saved myself," Pino whispered. "He kind of came along for the ride.

Only those who have reached the limit of themselves, with nothing to offer in their own defence, fall into the abyss of love. In fact only sinners understand the gospel. It is not available to anyone else.3 David Runcorn

If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.

Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.

I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

I'm a Leo. Leos don't believe in this astrology stuff.

Sometimes I was so funny I couldn't stand myself.

what would you call this haircut?"arthur.

Yes it is" Eragon said before his courage left him "just like you

Awesome ends with me but Ugly starts with u...

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

I'd love to be what I have been.

It's not funny anymore...", did you heard your self, you are entering a position called, "I wanna be a victim..., please take me".

You've got a big ego, Fuentes.""That's not all I've got.