Quotes about self
selfish promise want
I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want. Maggie Stiefvater
self laughing kitchen
Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well." "And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased. Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.
self self-control grace-brisbane
I’m not looking for self-control.
self grace overestimate
Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.
self self-destruction destruction
I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction. Mackenzie Phillips
self causes sensitive
Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others. Madame de Stael
selfishness atheism baseness
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
self somewhere-else pathways
This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me. Haruki Murakami
self years mind
No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.
self darkness want
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.
self feelings different
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
self-esteem typewriters deep-breathing
When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified. Harlan Ellison
self people church
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
self fame interest
I do not like to "interest" the public with myself. Gustave Flaubert
self destruction aggressive
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. Greg Bear
self elephants empathy
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior. Graydon Carter
selfish years guy
Try not to be four years into a relationship when it suddenly dawns on you that the guy you're with is a big, selfish jerk. Greg Behrendt
self government culture
Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. Gilbert K. Chesterton
selfish confused cities
The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
self-esteem humble sunset
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble. John Madden
self expression design
I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. John Malkovich
self blood government
Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty. John Lothrop Motley
self stupidity use
Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates. John Locke
self doubt might
I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out.
self-esteem philosophical men
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
self feelings age
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either. John Leo
self acting overcoming
You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual. John Lithgow
self way stranger
Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way. John Larroquette
self suffering world
The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able. John Lancaster Spalding
self loathing self-loathing
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes. John Barth
self news self-knowledge
Self knowledge is always bad news.
self arrogant impatient
I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant. John Banville
self doubt self-doubt
I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.