102 Quotes About Projection

The very things I needed to learn were the very things I was trying to teach you.

Where does the pain go when we die?does it stay in the bed as it begins to stink—does it racket through the home like a scream—do the children inherit it like a sprawling estate—And where does it go while we live?Maybe the pain is like me, desperate to be seen in the lives of those around me. I will abandon others again and again until I can finally be free of my own abandonment.

If you were easier on yourself, you wouldn't be so tough on everyone else.

I think sometimes we gravitate toward broken people, not ’cause we want to fix them, but ’cause we want to fix ourselves. The line between selflessness and selfishness is thin and intangible. It’s imaginary. We can’t see it. People project their problems onto other people’s problems. It happens all the time. We see ourselves in each other. We can’t help it. It’s human nature.

A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.

The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure.

Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

Sometimes when I find myself feeling sorry for myself all I need to do it think of you and how you feel about yourself to know... It could be so much worse.

Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.