Quotes About Self

Es una era difícil en la que ser persona. Simplemente una persona real, auténtica, en vez de una colección de rasgos seleccionados a partir de una interminable galería de personajes. Y si todos interpretamos un papel, es imposible que exista nada semejante a un compañero del alma, porque lo que tenemos no son almas de verdad.

El amor hace que quieras ser un hombre mejor, vale, de acuerdo. Peor a lo mejor el amor, el verdadero amor, también te autoriza para ser simplemente el hombre que eres.

Marrow-deep embarrassment, the kind that becomes part of your DNA, that changes you.

the Cool Girl. Men always say that as the defining compliment, don't they? She's a cool girl.

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 had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.

what we are above all other things, is individual and different.

Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which there is no escape simply by being ourselves and interacting with other selves.

You don't alter the past, turn the tide, or change yourself by brooding about your hidden motives. You will surprise yourself every time, anyway. Nobody ever figures out why.

Lie to everyone in this man's world if need be, but never lie to yourself, because that's the quickest road to destruction.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

What was so wrong about the old me that now I have to be somebody else?

What a difference a few months make. Back then I had such a high opinion of the great Chase Ambrose that I considered myself untouchable. Now it's the opposite. I hate myself so much that there's no way any judge could hate me more.

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they'll stumble on the right one.

They say that to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is fully calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

What matters finally is not the world's judgement of oneself but one's own judgement of the world. Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America

I said it. I like to quote myself. I am not modest.

But it is possible to study until one has studied oneself deep into error.

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

Man made God in his own image, so it's natural he should love him. You know those distorting mirrors at fairs. Man's made a beautifying mirror too in which he sees himself lovely and powerful and just and wise. It's his idea of himself. He recognizes himself easier than in the distorting mirror which only makes him laugh, but how he loves himself in the other.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

If I eliminate everything, how will I exist?