4,826 Quotes About Self

It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated and self-satisfied. When proud feelings come I step up over them to the realm of work, to the thing I want, the liveness of the thing itself.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.

When we love God because we feel we should love Him, instead of genuinely loving out of our true selves, we have forgotten who God really is.

Thall shall keep thy religion to thy selves.