Quotes About Self

Destroy him! We are special!" "What value is there in being special?" "In my past life, I was a warrior! Just as I am in the present!" "But how does your past life help you now?

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

The music started up. Mehana called out the verse, and Kate glided into the first kaholo, losing her self in the dance.

Beauty doesn't see itself and when it does something is lost.

Money lets you be who you really are.

Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.

Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.

I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the limits of flesh and blood, beyond the limits of even perhaps life itself, in order to discover some sense of order in what appears to be a disordered universe. I'm using my imagination to find meaning, both for myself and, I hope, for my readers.-Clive Barker

The places where death comes to take love away, where we lose each other and lose ourselves; that's where the connections begin. It takes a brave soul to look there and not despair. I've tried to be brave, she said. I know, he said softly. I know.

Remember, Lucius, that everything you learn is already a part of you, even to the Godhead Itself. Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing--there the Maestro stopped and shuddered, as though he had a presentiment--fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing. For everything that does evil is in pain. Will you remember those things?

No. No, I'm not." Then she said: "I'm somebody else. I just don't know who that somebody else is yet." "Well that's what journeys are for," Diamanda Murkitt said.

A jug of his urine Ã¢â'¬â€œ the product of seven days' collection Ã¢â'¬â€œ stood on the left of the altar, should they require some spontaneous gesture of self-defilement.

So many masks. Was she the only one who had no secret life, no other self in marrow or mind?

Every man is his own Mephistopheles, don't you think?

What matters is there's something in you which is unique to you. And that's the only thing that matters. Not being the next Clive Barker, not being the next… whatever. What matters is being the next whoever you are. The only whoever you are. And - right or wrong - I'm the only Clive Barker.

I wonder if the reverse is not also in some way true. That the artist is constantly working on an elaborate and fantasticated self-portrait, but at the end has drawn, unbeknown, a picture of the world.

Your flesh is killing your spirit

Dorothea: What the fuck are you? Nix: A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind.

I have a smack of Hamlet myself , if I do say so .

Blaming others doesn't help you make the shift into courage and recognizing the support of Spirit and your own soul working together. Blaming yourself and just trying to paddle as fast as you can as you tell yourself how stupid and inadequate you were keeps you stuck in the pain and suffering caused by your small self.

We have only one real shot at liberation, and that is to emancipate ourselves from within

Boredom, passivity, stagnation: these are the beginning of mental illness, which propagates itself like the scum on a stagnant pond.