Quotes About Self

An anxiety for being me, forever trapped in myself, floods my whole being without finding a way out, shaping me into tenderness, fear, sorrow and desolation. An inexplicable surfeit of absurd grief, a sorrow so lonely, so bereft, so metaphysically mine...

Let's act like sphinxes, however falsely, until we reach the point of no longer knowing who we are. For we are, in fact, false sphinxes, with no idea of what we are in reality. The only way to be in agreement with life is to disagree with ourselves. Absurdity is divine.

It's been a long time since i've been me.

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can't be one in my body.

No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may have That is part of one's self

At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.

But oh how many Caesars I have been!

My worthless self lives on at the bottom of every expression, like an indissoluble residue at the bottom of a glass from which only water was drunk.

Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.

perché se la libertà non è in me non la troverò da nessuna parte.

Je me suis multiplié pour me sentir, Pour me sentir, j'ai eu besoin de tout ressentir; J'ai débordé, j'ai fini par me répandre

We should wash our destiny the way we wash our body, and change life the way we change clothes – not to preserve life, as when we eat and sleep, but out of objective respect for ourselves, which is what personal hygiene is all about.

I see boats moving on the sea. Their sails, like wings of what I see, Bring me a vague inner desire to be Who I was without knowing what it was. So all recalls my home self, and, because It recalls that, what I am aches in me.

Omnia fui, nihil expedit – I have been everything, nothing is worth anything.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept – our own selves – that we love.

Todo se me evapora. Mi vida entera, mis recuerdos, mi imaginación y lo que contiene, mi personalidad, todo se me evapora. Continuamente siento que he sido otro, que he sentido otro, que he pensado otro. Aquello a lo que asisto es un espectáculo con otro escenario. Y aquello a lo que asisto soy yo

What once was moral is now, for us, aesthetic … What was social is now individual

Agir, eis a inteligência verdadeira. Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for.

Amar es cansarse de estar solo: es, por lo tanto, una cobardía y una traición a nosotros mismos.

Se escrevo o que sinto é porque assim diminuo a febre de sentir.

O único modo de estarmos de acordo com a vida é estarmos em desacordo com nós próprios. O absurdo é divino.

Between my sleeping and dreaming, Between me and the one in me Who I suppose I am, A river flows without end. "30 August 1933

El único modo de estar de acuerdo con la vida es estar en desacuerdo con nosotros mismos. Lo absurdo es lo divino. Establecer

I'm nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.