Quotes About Self

The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.

How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.

Sunt convins c? nu sunt absolut nimic în univers, dar simt c? singura existen?? real? este a mea.

Once I had a "self"; now I am no more than an object.

It is our discomforts which provoke, which create consciousness; their task accomplished, they weaken and disappear one after the other. Consciousness however remains and survives them, without recalling what it owes to them, without even ever having known. Hence it continually proclaims its autonomy, its sovereignty, even when it loathes itself and would do away with itself.

The sphere of consciousness shrinks in action; no one who acts can lay claim to the universal, for to act is to cling to the properties of being at the expense of being itself, to a form of reality to reality's detriment.

Aduni,cuceresti,castigi si lupti pentru a fugi de tine,pentru a-ti invinge intristarea de a nu exista,in mod real,decat tu insuti.

umiremo srazmerno broju rechi koje razbacujemo svuda oko sebe.oni koji govore nemaju tajni. a svi govorimo. izdajemo se, krchmimo dushu; svako se, kao dzhelat neizrecivog, upinje da unishti sve tajne, pochev od sopstvenih.

Toate starile extreme sunt derivate ale vietii prin care ea se apara de ea insasi.

Când ajungem st?pâni pe boal?, devenim mai mult decât suntem, ne cre?m pe noi înÅŸine.

Trei diminea?a. Simt secunda de fa??, apoi pe cealalt?, fac bilan?ul fiec?rui minut. De ce toate astea? Pentru c? m-am n?scut.

Every 'I' begins with a crack and a revelation.

Impartiality is incompatible with the will to affirm oneself or quite simply with the will to exist. To acknowledge another's merits is an alarming symptom, an act against nature.

Existing is plagiarism.

CunoaÈ™terea de sine creeaz? un interval între eu È™i lume pe care nimic nu-l mai poate umple, È™i care sfârÈ™eÈ™te prin a evacua aceast? lume îns??i.

El talento es el medio más seguro de falsearlo todo, de deformar las cosas y de equivocarse acerca de uno mismo. Sólo poseen una existencia verdadera aquellos a quienes la naturaleza no ha abrumado con ningún don. Sería por ello difícil de imaginar un universo más falso que el universo literario, o un hombre más desprovisto de realidad que el hombre de letras.

Sa nu-ti renegi niciodata originile,oricate motive ai avea sa rosesti pentru ele.E o apostazie rusinoasa si de altfel fizic imposibila,o contradictie in termeni: e un refuz al indentitatii ,e ca si cum ai spune: "Eu nu sunt eu",lucru pe care,evident,il poti spune,dar care nu inseamna nimic-afara de cazul ca e o intorsatura retorica sau un paradox de circumstanta.

En el estallido del volcán de nuestro ser, ¿bastaría el veneno acumulado en nosotros para envenenar al mundo entero?

O la existencia o yo!». Uno de los dos debe ceder.

If one were at every moment conscious of what one knew - if, for example, the sentiment of foundationlessness were both continual and intense - one would kill oneself or allow oneself to slip into imbecility. One exists thanks to the moments when one forgets certain truths.

A te lipsi de iluziile tale e totuna cu a atenta la propria-?i fiin??.

The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are.