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Quotes About Self

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
~ Seamus Heaney
My flesh was not for feasting on
~ Seamus Heaney
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.
~ Seamus Heaney
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
~ Seamus Heaney
O hide me, hide me from myself
~ Seamus Heaney translation
We have taken control of biology, but not of ourselves.
~ Sean B Carroll
This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.
~ Thomas S. Monson
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
~ Leonard Cohen
I've had such a great time, I'd like to come back as me - and do it all over again.
~ Michael Caine
I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name.
~ Pablo Neruda
I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.
~ Anne Rice, Pandora
Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.
~ August Wilhelm Schlegel
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.
~ A. S. Byatt
We don't have the time to completely be ourselves. We only have the room to be happy.
~ Albert Camus
It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a little piece of that character, cause it's a part of you you're using.
~ Alia Shawkat
and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.
~ Ani DiFranco
I knew her hair and her coloring and her shapes would be different next time, but the way she wore her body would keep on.
~ Ann Brashares
I go online all the time, I just don't read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls and that's great.
~ Anna Quindlen
I chose the title Dogwalker because that describes me pretty well. I spend a lot of time walking around with my dogs. I'd say the narrator is me in an alternate universe.
~ Arthur Bradford
When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.
~ Austin Grossman
When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it's because you haven't had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.
~ Benjamin Clementine
Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
~ Camille Paglia
There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.
~ Cecelia Ahern
As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.
~ Charlie Day