Quotes About Self

Todos nos contamos una historia sobre nosotros mismos. Siempre. Continuamente. Esa historia es lo que nos convierte en lo que somos. Nos construimos

He was in very truth his own God, and a more splendid God than the God that stank of incense and was quartered in churches.

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I mean one can be so remote in spirit from one's actual father -or mother- it's as though one doesn't belong to them. Spiritually," he dared, "one can be someone else's child.

Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

What is nothing? I impetuously asked. -It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return.

Of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.

I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.

Thank you, I said. I have lived in my own book. One I never planned to write, recording time backwards and forwards.

It occurred to me looking around at all of your things and your work and going through years of work in my mind, that of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.

Free of all expectation or desire, she spun, and was at once the loom, the thread, the strand of gold

Having no past we have only present and future. We would all like to believe that we came from nowhere but ourselves, every gesture is our own. But then we find we belong to the history and fate of a long line of beings that also may have wished to be free

I have not sold myself to God. - Babelogue

I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.

An unreal world was much bigger than a real world, and there was more than enough room in it to be yourself and not yourself at the same time.

Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on. Perhaps you will remember that. I am...

But I know nothing of time. I am new every day. I am born when I wake up in the morning, I grow old during the day, and I die at night when I go to sleep. It is not my fault. And I am doing so well today. I am doing so much better than I have ever done before.

in the end, each life is irreducible to anything other than itself. Which is as much as to say: lives make no sense.