Quotes About Self

Obviously, my changing everything into fiction is simply a means of concealing something from myself.

If you choose to make a nonentity of yourself, do, but don't stick that label on me.

That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

Sex then, no matter how dangerous. Sex then, no matter what the cost. Never again, I promised, would I let anyone persuade me to rob myself.

He shrugged. "One escapes; but one always has to come back. I found too I disliked not being in command of myself.

It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.

What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.

Is that robot yours?" he said. "No," came a thin metallic voice from the crater, "I'm mine.

Non puoi vedere quel che vedo io perché vedi quel che vedi. Non puoi sapere quel che so io perché sai quel che sai. Quel che io vedo e so non si può aggiungere a quel che vedi e sai tu, perché le due cose non sono dello stesso tipo. Né quel che che vedo e do io può sostituire quel che vedi e sai tu, perché questo significherebbe sostituire te stesso.

But naturally my shoulder, sir,' mooed the animal contentedly, 'nobody else's is mine to offer.

The only places you could ever feel were right were worlds you designed for yourself to inhabit—virtual realities in the electric clubs. It had never occurred to her that the real Universe was something you could actually fit into.

I'm just this guy, y'know

Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn't be able to look for them." "What, are you crazy?" "It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet," said Zaphod quietly. "I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet," said Zaphod quietly. "I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

My name is not important

Zaphod's just this guy, you know?

there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

It wasn't that she wanted to be difficult, as such, it was just that she didn't know how or what else to be.

You are not your body.

Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about yourself.

Collecting and hoarding seem to be about the loss of others, while philanthropy and de-accessioning are more about the impending loss of self. (Whoever dies with the most toys actually loses.)