Quotes About Self

Sometimes I feel I am crammed with demons.

You've got such nice hair, it seems a pity to dye it blue.

Death is not the consummation of oneself but just the end of oneself. Before the self vanishes nothing really is, and that is how it is most of the time. But as soon as the self vanishes everything is, and becomes automatically the object of love. Love holds the world together, and if we could forget ourselves everything in the world would fly into a perfect harmony, and when we see beautiful things that is what they remind us of.

I want you to be able to see me, and as my love for you is so much of me (all of me, making me more than myself) then you must see that too.

Happy love undoes the self and makes the world visible. Unhappy love is, or can be, a revelation of pure suffering.

You've got to see me , Martin. I'm to blame. I've never been quite and entirely myself with you. The situation didn't let me be. The untruthfulness infected everything. I must break out a little? Do you see at all?

I was not, except in some very broken-down sense of that ambiguous term, a love child. I was a word child.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes

Death contradicts ownership and self.

You know as well as I do that one can be imprisoned in one's mind.

Charles, don't destroy yourself, said James. Why are you always so intent on breaking everything that surrounds and supports you?

The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.

I cannot now remember the exact sequence of events in those prehistoric years. That we cannot remember such things, that our memory, which is our self, is tiny, limited and fallible, is also one of those important things about us, like our inwardness and our reason. Indeed it is the very essence of both.

The great evil, the dreadful evil, that which made war and slavery and all man's inhumanity to man lay in the cool self-justifying ruthless selfishness of quite ordinary people, such as Biranne, and himself.

There are violent things in my heart. Perhaps they have been festering there ever since that change . And now I have run in here to find some different pain, some mystery of myself to keep secret, something which, for this short time, is absolutely not Jack.

I am sunk in the wreck of myself . . . I live in myself like a mouse inside a ruin.

What a bore for you," I said, and I smiled to myself. Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

Is that a quotation? Only from me.

There was absolutely nothing that she could do with this huge emotion which she had so suddenly discovered in herself.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

She could find no emotional connection though, between the her of now and the her of then

It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same

If we jist be oorselves, n be honest, thill nivir gie either ay us the fuckin joab.