Quotes About Self

Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.

You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.

Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.

We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident,

I can't even say her name. She doesn't even have a name. She is she . She is her . She possesses the pronoun so completely that no one else can touch it. There is only one her in the great stinking gas giant of my heart, fifty feet high. She is a giantess. I am no one. Well, not "no one". I am Anchises St. John. But I am no one's him .

A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.

Within the bowels of these elements, where we are tortured and remain for ever, The Labyrinth hath no limits, nor is circumscribed in one self place; for where we are is the Labyrinth, and where the Labyrinth is, there must we ever be. Hoo.

What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do — so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.

You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

People are clocks who think they wind themselves.

I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not me, I would not be able to advise you, and if I were unable to advise you, you'd do as you like, so you might as well do as you like and have done with it.

I challenge anyone not to feel worn down after weeks and months of having to be grateful. When there is little enough left of your true self, somehow the gratitude feels like the last straw. Or

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

You can't change other people: you can only change how you react to them.

It's not who you are that matters. It's what you do with who you are. The blood running through your veins is the only blood that matters. When you go out into the world, you have the chance to leave the past behind

The most damaging legacy of the West has been its power to decide who our enemies are, turning us not only against our own people, like North and South Korea, but turning me against myself.

I always thought my physical identity was the problem, but writing made me realize that even without myself present, I still couldn't rise above myself, which pitched me into a kind of despair.

I don't have to be affected by race; I only choose to think about it. I could live only for myself, for my immediate family, following the expectations of my parents, whose survivor instincts align with this country's neoliberal ethos, which is to get ahead at the expense of anyone else while burying the shame that binds us.

not (the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are).

I think that you have mistaken pride for faith, as so many do.

What I do is me, for that I came.

Ik speel de rol die ik ben.

It is no disaster to be unhappy but how discouraging it must be to know that there is nothing to pin the blame on, outside oneself?