4,826 Quotes About Self

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.