4,826 Quotes About Self

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real. -Going Bovine

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

I'm more pompous and self-assured and determined that if - you know - if the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.

The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.