Quotes About Self

She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.

C'est dans l'extraordinaire que je me sens le plus naturel.

Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.

One imagines one possesses and in reality one is possessed.

L'homme qui se dit heureux et qui pense, celui-là sera appelé vraiment fort.

We imagine we possess, and we are possessed.

One wants to deceive people, and one is so much occupied with seeming, that one ends by not knowing what one really is.…

It seems to me sometimes that I do not really exist, but that I merely imagine I exist.

Les âmes semblables à la sienne se croient perdues, dès qu'elles ne sentent plus auprès d'elles tuteurs, rampes et garde-fous. De plus elles tolèrent mal chez autrui une liberté qu'elles résignent, et souhaitent d'obtenir par contrainte tout ce qu'on est prêt à leur accorder par amour.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture form, and where it all begins.

Fatevi condizionare il meno possibile da una società che finge di darci il massimo della libertà.

Social outrage is power protecting itself; it is not morality.

Especially, [the skin] is both identity and sex, what one is and what one feels in the realm of the sensual, [...] where the self meets the world-intercourse being, ultimately, the self in the act of meeting the world. The other person embodies not one's own privacy, but everything outside it.

I'm not using you. I'm losing me.

I'm not feeling regret. I'm feeling confused and off balance." "And you like being in control." "Not of others, but of myself, yes.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.

One of the cornerstones of the pragmatic philosophy is the idea of taking responsibility for yourself and your actions in terms of your career advancement, your project, and your day-to-day work.