Quotes About Self

I love my shadow, this dark side of me that had my same restless nature.

Being a dominatrix gave me the ultimate power: to sing without self-consciousness.

What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?

What was worse, we asked ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with proper somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?

This Shanghai was not a place but a feeling of contentment. I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride

Cuándo algo va contra tu naturaleza no estás equilibrado... Por eso nunca puedes avanzar, siempre estás retrocediendo.

I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parents' wishes, but I would never forget myself.

I made a promise to myself: I would always remember my parents' wishes, but I would not forget myself.

I loved my shadow, this dark side of me that had my same restless nature.

Y me hice una promesa: siempre recordaría los deseos de mis padres, pero jamas me olvidaría de mi misma.

It was sad and beautiful knowledge that a person cannot be found elsewhere but in his own spirit.

it's your own fears that give them the power to chase you.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people's.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.

I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I see it as a disease, a proliferation as dangerous as cancer. My first concept about people around me was that all of them were coordinated into a WHOLE, whereas I was made up of a multitude of selves, of fragments.

By the end of the evening I was like a man, terribly in love with her face and body, which promised so much, and I hated the self created in her by others. Others feel because of her; and because of her, others write poetry; because of her, others hate; others, like Henry, love her in spite of themselves.

The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide.

human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.

But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...