Quotes About Self

I am a very sad person. I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.

Despite the near-constant regret he felt about being himself, he never confused himself for the problem. The problem was the world. It was the world that didn't fit. But how much happiness has ever resulted from correcting the record on the culpability of the world?

Oskar: I'm God! Thomas: You're an atheist. Oskar: I don't exist!

E asa de greu sa te exprimi. - Eu inteleg. - Eu vreau sa ma exprim. - La fel si eu. - Imi caut vocea. - E in gura ta.

So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for.

That's not true, I said, not knowing what the next words out of my mouth would be, but wanting them to be mine, wanting, more than I'd ever wanted anything, to express the center of me and be understood.

Ik geloof dat je een enorm belang hecht aan geluk - van jezelf en anderen - en ongelukkig zijn zo bedreigend vindt dat je liever met het hele schip naar de kelder gaat dan toegeeft dat er een lek in zit.

Todas nuestras neurosis empiezan cuando tratamos de ser lo que no somos.

Toda relación que no favorezca la expansión del Yo, que impida el crecimiento, aun cuando sea estable y/ o aparentemente gratificadora, encierra el germen de su propia destrucción.

No puedo definir mi camino desde ver el tuyo y no debo definirme a mí por el camino que estoy recorriendo.

Nada me obliga a seguir adelante, nada que no sea mi propio deseo de hacerlo.

Ben olmay? istediÄŸim kiÅŸi deÄŸilim. Olmak zorunda olduÄŸum kiÅŸi deÄŸilim. Annemin olmam? istediÄŸi kiÅŸi deÄŸilim. Daha önce olmuÅŸ olduÄŸum kiÅŸi deÄŸilim. Kimsem oyum.

Benim olmana ihtiyaç duyduÄŸum kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Eskiden olduÄŸun kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Olman benim iÅŸime gelen kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Benim olman? istediÄŸim kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Sen kimsen osun.

Mi historia personal puede condicionar mi elección, pero no me quita la posibilidad de elegir.

No nos vamos a quedar sin posibilidad de amar a los otros si nos amamos a nosotros mismos

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me...

Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

Mi carne puede tener miedo; yo, no.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.

I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

zaman beni sürükleyen bir nehir, ama nehir benim; beni parçalayan bir kaplan, ama kaplan benim; beni tüketen bir ateÅŸ, ama ateÅŸ benim; evren, ne yaz?k ki gerçek; ben, ne yaz?k ki, borges'im

Mirrors in metal, and the masked Mirror of mahogany that in its mist Of a red twilight hazes The face that is gazed on as it gazes