Quotes About Self

El orgasmo concorde (probablemente raro) es lo más cercano que hay en la experiencia humana a la abolición del yo

This may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about.. when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me.

Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.

La poesía no es un conocimiento de sí, y menos aún la experiencia de un lejano posible (de lo que anteriormente no existía) sino la simple evocación con palabras de posibilidades inaccesibles.

I entered into this darkness where, ever since, I plunge deeper every hour and lose myself a little more.

We can't rely on anything. Except ourselves. Ludicrous responsibility devolves on us, overwhelms us. In every regard, right up the present, people always have relied on each other—or God.

Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

It is as if you were living with the constant dread that the slightest weakening of your resolution might, all at once, take you too far. It is as if you constantly needed to tell yourself: it is this way because I wanted it this way, I wanted it this way, otherwise I am dead.

some men must create pain in others to feel less of it themselves.

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

He is James Henry Alden, and I'm Henry James Alden.

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.

She answered him, there is nothing within you that fights itself and hitherto you have had the instinct to produce antagonism in others which stimulated you to attack.

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a writer, a serious writer, conceives himself as existing by and in himself, he does not at all live in the reflection of his books, to write he must first of all exist in himself, but for a painter to be able to paint, the painting must first of all be done.

J'aime vivre au milieu de tant de gens et être si seule avec ma langue et moi-même.

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

Being myself has worked out pretty well for me I think.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

It's honestly just pressure that I put on myself when I'm working. It's just how I operate.

It sounds super cliche, but staying true to yourself and what you are works.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

Sexuality is who you want to be with. Gender identity is who you want to be in the world.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.