4,826 Quotes About Self

Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather.Gutman:That may be true.But what can you do about it?Byron:Make a departure.Gutman:From yourself?Byron:From my present self to myself as I used to be!Gutman:That's the furthest departure a man could make!

I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself.

Words are God’s gift to mend a broken soul.

Fate, fortune, chance: all snares of life. You want to be, eh? There’s this catch: in abstract, you cannot just be. The being must be trapped in a form, and for some time it has to stay in it, here or there, this way or that. And everything, as long as it lasts, bears the penalty of its form, the penalty of being this way and no longer being able to be otherwise.

He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes; of making excuses to himself for a teacher who flatters him, of waking up some morning to find himself admiring a girl merely because she is accessible. He has a dread of easy compromises, and he is terribly afraid of being fooled.

There is something more dangerous than the death of one’s body. It is “the undiscovered self”; being alive without knowing why.

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

The body is innocent. Deeply, beautifully, fundamentally innocent.

For a moment the radio wavered between stationsand I was so busymaking myself marvelous.