Quotes About Self

Each time we are indebted we pay off the debt to ourselves. In each of us lies a creditor and a debtor at once and the art is for the reckoning to tally inside us.

In each of us lies a creditor and a debtor at once and the art is for the reckoning to tally inside us.

Dandelion to Geralt: Change your job and become a priest. You'd be decent with your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people's nature and every single thing. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem. I know very few prists who do. Become a priest and stop complaining about yourself.

In each of us lies a creditor and a debtor at once and the art is for the reckoning to tally inside us. We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.

How funny it is that one of the fundamental definitions of being "modern" is the ability to avoid physical labor, when it might be that very thing that could provide us with such depth of connection to ourselves and to the world.

Every idol makes two simple and extravagant promises. "You shall not surely die." "You shall be like God.

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Are you the person the person you're looking for is looking for?

I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.

He refers to a defeat as if it came from God, but a victory as if it came from himself.

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the window of her eyes and this is very frightening.

I am happy only in that I am a monster.

She was no malleable, since frigid, substance upon which desires might be executed; she was not a true prostitute for she was the object on which men prostituted themselves.

For now my skin was my sole capital in the world and today I'd make my first investment.

For I am not natural, you know - even though, if you cut me, I will bleed.

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.

I desire therefore I exist.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

Blaming yourself gives you the comfortable illusion of being in control.

No m'entenc ni jo mateixa, i és per això que ningú més no em pot entendre.

I am a mystery to myself.

as was the title: I, Marcellus.

Angus Stevenson