Quotes About Self

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

Body and soul can never be married I need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell

But I am not here and never have been.

No one can hate me more than I hate myself.

I used to love you. - What's changed? - You. - No. Now you see me. That's all.

I cannot touch my essential self.

Elle parle d'elle à la troisième personne parce que l'idée d'être celle qu'elle est, de s'admettre telle quelle, c'est plus que son orgueil ne peut en supporter

C'est la vanité, ce n'est pas d'être équilibré qui va me garder indemne

It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind.

She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.

Do you still snore as loudly as you used to?" "I don't know," said Branwise, taking the question too seriously. "When I'm asleep I can't hear myself.

Inner beauty can fade, too.

You aren't the same person after a good night's sleep as you are after a sleepless night. But which person is you?

I suspect competence follows from an ability to believe oneself competent.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

There was the way she moved and the way she looked at people and the way she'd turned herself into Nobbie Wainwright on the way Aiaia. She'd been playing a governess when we met her, but that wasn't what she was.

The first time he had seen her, the first time he had looked into her eyes, he had thought he saw his Stag of Candles reflected there. He had been trying to find that reflection again ever since, but all he ever saw was himself.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

We are ghosts of the people we used to be. -Dickensian, TV Series (2015– ), s01e17

It's kind of like you go [forward], and it's still about you, but the picture keeps getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger.

So all you can do is be your own beautiful self and let love win.

She was at her truest, it seemed to her, in these tingling moments—these moments when, paradoxically, she was also at her most anonymous.

If I seemed strange, and conscious of myself, what was that to her? We were all strange, there.

Time for a whole new you,' the make-up artist had said, and Grace wondered why everyone was so down on the old Grace. She hadn't been that bad.