Quotes About Self

Every man is his own hell.

Si usted lo acepta todo, usted se convierte en nada.

As Jewish historian Yuri Slezkine noted, modernity has turned us all into Jews. ("The Jewish Century," 2004.) Modernism is the dysfunction that results from making oneself God. Modern man is the Jew, the heretic, the anti-hero, alienated from God, society and paradoxically himself. He lives in a self-created reality divorced from truth.

My 'I', my conscious self, writing these words, does not feel like electrochemistry, but that is what it is.

It has never seemed a problem to me, only a source of awe, amazement and profound surprise that my consciousness, my very sense of self which feels as free as air, which was trying to read the book but instead was watching the clouds through the high windows, the self which is now writing these words, is in fact the electrochemical chatter of one hundred billion nerve cells.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.

I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good.

I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.

There are a few things that are mine. I see this now. Like today, sitting in this diner. This time is mine. These thoughts are mine. Memories are mine. I don't own much. It's nice to know that there are some things that no one will be able to take from me.

They smile They will hurt you Turn inside Your only friend is inside They will cut your heart

One has to kill a few of one's natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.