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Quotes About Self (page 19)

It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust. Charles Bukowski
Tutt’al pi commuoversi sugli altri, mai su se stesso. To pity others perhaps, never to pity one’s self. Be touched by others, don’t be touched by yourself Cesare Pavese
William Shakespeare quote: "Make thee another self for love of me, That beauty still may..."
Make thee another self for love of me, That beauty still may live in thine or thee William Shakespeare
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. Milan Kundera
Nathaniel Hawthorne quote: "What other dungeon is so dark as one's heart! What jailor so..."
What other dungeon is so dark as one's heart! What jailor so inexorable as one's self. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Philip Pullman quote: "Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his..."
Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died. Philip Pullman
Do what thy manhood bids thee do,From none but self expect aplause;He noblest live and noblest diesWho makes and keeps his self-made laws. Richard Francis Burton
You are my sympathy - my better self - my good angel; I am bound to you by a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely; a fervant, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my center and spring of life, wraps my existence about you - and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one. Charlotte Bronte
a total stranger one black dayknocked living the hell out of me-who found forgiveness hard becausemy(as it happened)self he was-but now that fiend and i are suchimmortal friends the other's each E. E. Cummings
She loved nothing in the world except this woman's son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn't the least bit of control over the predator that lived inside her. Totally taken over by her anaconda love, she had no self left, no fears, no wants, no intelligence that was her own [...] Ruth heard the supplication in her words and it seemed to her that she was not looking at a person but at an impulse, a cell, a red corpuscle that neither knows nor understands why it is driven to spend its... Toni Morrison
Samuel Johnson quote: "All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It is in order..."
All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. Samuel Johnson
It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men: kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest: sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self interest are the traits of success. John Steinbeck
Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls- which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more... Donna Tartt
E. E. Cummings quote: "For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self..."
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self we find in the sea. E. E. Cummings
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate... Derek Walcott

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