Quotes About Self

To realize that who we are is not ours to know, that what we think or feel is always a translation, that what we want is not what we wanted, nor perhaps what anyone wanted – to realize all this at every moment, to feel all this in every feeling – isn't this to be foreign in one's own soul, exiled in one's own sensations?

I envy in everyone the fact that they are not me.

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.

O amor é um sonho que chega para o pouco ser que se é.

Sou navegador num desconhecimento de mim.

La vida del hombre no puede "ser vivida" repitiendo los patrones de su especie; es él mismo –

O sea que él debe seguir siendo él y tú tienes que seguir siendo tú.

Los existencialistas no piensan en el hombre como especie, sino en su absoluta singularidad. En

I think it is true to say only an inferior person has rights. When you hear a person talking about his rights, you may be sure he is trying to gain by dint of shouting something which he lacks ( or had and lost) by reason of some culpable deficiency in himself.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

It was love without reason, love for something futureless, love that appeared to exist only to be itself, imperious and all demanding, the kind that would cause him to make a fool of himself in an instant.

Unfortunately, to try to disconnect faith from vision is to do violence to the whole personality, and the whole personality participates in the act of writing. The tensions of being a Catholic novelist are probably never balanced for the writer until the Church becomes so much a part of his personality that he can forget about her—in the same sense that when he writes, he forgets about himself.

You remain what you are. - Everything That Rises Must Converge

He don't know it's anything he can't know, the old man said. That's his trouble. He thinks if it's something he can't know then somebody smarter than him can tell him about it and he can know it just the same. And if you were to go there, the first thing he would do would be to test your head and tell you what you were thinking and howcome you were thinking it and what you ought to be thinking instead. And before long you wouldn't belong to your self no more, you would belong to him.

Nothing in the Bible makes any religious sense unless we are people of faith who believe that God's own self speaks to us in this living Word.

My restaurant is an expression of myself - my fantasies. Where I've been, and where I want to be. I think of my cooking as very emotional.

I've had a fantastic life so far; I'm lucky. I'd like the great role that changes everything, but at the moment, what's important is being happy in myself.

I live my life in a sea of clothes. And it's fantastic to be able to use them and play with them.

I mean, I am my own fantasy.

I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.

I find myself fascinating.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

I played at being someone else in movies and live theater, and at being myself in life's most intense, fascinating game - the game of love.