Quotes About Self

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

I describe myself as a human being.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Identity is as absurd and contradictory, I think - and certainly as mutable - as the human brain.

I don't have to research humanity, I just have to be courageous enough to share that part of myself with everybody.

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you.

I am from a very humble working class family and was told that whatever circumstances I find myself in that I must stay the same person, be myself.

If I've gotten to a point where people want to see something because I'm in it, I'm grateful and humbled. But having an awareness of that doesn't help me do what I need to do, I think.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

I wouldn't say I've changed at all. A lot of people will keep saying I'm a different person, especially when I go across those white lines. I think it's just the hunger and desire and passion I've got for the game.

It's a strange business, speaking for yourself, because it doesn't at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject.

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.

Cogito para un yo disuelto.

I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there—hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

And then the strangest thought of all clattered drunkenly from the back of my brain to the front and blinded me: If I kill Amy, who will I be?

Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.

A veces mis cicatrices tienen vida propia.

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. And

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. I would have done anything to feel real again.

It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls. It

Because I feel sorry for you. - Why? - Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.

As a man, I had been my most impressive when I loved her – and I was my next best self when I hated her.