Quotes About Self

and now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place!

sono troppo giovane per essere vecchia e troppo vecchia per essere giovane! Non riesco a collocarmi in nessuna categoria.

On ne peut reprocher à quelqu'un d'être ce qu'il est.

You may not be the person your mother wants you to

How arrogant you are To think your wretched Self so singular! The disappointments of this world will die In less time than the blinking of an eye, And as the earth must pass, pass by the earth Don't even glance at it, know what it's worth; What empty foolishness it is to care For what must one day be dispersed to air!

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!

My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?

Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely no one.

Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don't even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn't mine: it's me.

Se depois de eu morrer, quiserem escrever a minha biografia, não há nada mais simples. Têm só duas datas: a da minha nascença e a da minha morte. Entre uma e outra coisa, todos os dias são meus

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!...

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it's not me.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

Nunca amamos a nadie: amamos, sólo, la idea que tenemos de alguien. Lo que amamos es un concepto nuestro, es decir, a nosotros mismos.

Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we are. (76)

Eu que me aguente comigo e com os comigos de mim.

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

By day I am nothing, by night I am I.

I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the sufferings of others I also have for my own. And so all my suffering is crushed under the foot of my disdain.

Multipliquei-me para me sentir.