Quotes About Self

So much of love is curiousity, a search inside the other for some little piece of self; emerging from the bear cave of them with your birthday candle and filament of ore: the same as that I'm made of!

So far as other people are concerned, you are your behaviour; so far as you are concerned, you are your thoughts and feelings.

I relied on what I wrote to build a bridge which could not be cut down. It was my own self in which I trusted, not seeing self as that last cell from which escape can only come too late.

Inexorable self, carried like the superfluous and tiresome piece of luggage which it is impossible to lose; franked with the customs' stamp of every frontier, retrieved exasperatingly from the disaster where everything else is lost, companion of the dislocation of cancelled sailings and missed connections, witness of every catastrophe, survivor of all voyages and situations…I

It was as though I had parted company all at once with my usual reasoning self, which had withdrawn into the shadows, leaving me no means of communicating with it; while another "I" took command, functioning at a different, more mysterious level, where all outer appearances were deceptive, and even the thoughts in my head shot with ambiguity.

I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much.

She just didn't know who else to be other than the person she was right now,

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

The most important distinction anyone can ever make in their life is between who they are as an individual and their connection with others.

I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.

He was a user of his own consciousness, but he did not have owner privileges. As a result, Paladin felt many things without knowing why.

Perhaps human intelligence gathering was a version of network penetration, and he could better integrate into social situations by inviting humans to see an illusory version of himself.

If you have property, you can't be property.

It has occurred because, within poststructuralism, the very notion of identity as a coherent and abiding sense of self is perceived as a cultural fantasy rather than a demonstrable fact.

From the divergence between black flesh and yellow ornament, we have arrived at this convergence: flesh that passes through objecthood needs ornament to get back to itself.

And our understanding of ourselves is deeply indebted to how we have imagined animality in the first place.

Why?" He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you.

I'm not cs747," she whispered defiantly as she shifted on her cot in order to lean back against the wall. "My name is Jean.

Why would I care what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory.

I am Tersa the Weaver, Tersa the Liar, Tersa the Fool.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.

Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what is lacking in the actual.