1,479 Quotes About Personality

A dialectical tension exists between people and nature through which each person determines his or her ultimate state.

Was I kind to others? It was hard to nail down an answer. I worried that if I did turn out to have a personality, it would be one of the unkind ones.

You were... Well, you were who you were.''We're all that,' says Claudia. 'It's something one has to overcome.

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.

I'm not afraid of what I am. I'm afraid I will see what I am not.

Almost every sane person is at least two different people.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.