Quotes About Self

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. ~Henry Van Dyke

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. ~Jean Guitton

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. ~Mignon McLaughlin

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid? ~Richard Bach

Misfortunes one can endure – they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one’s own faults – ah! there is the sting of life. ~Oscar Wilde

One’s only real life is the life one never leads. ~Oscar Wilde

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.~Carl G. Jung

When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something. ~Robert Browning

That’s the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don’t need them anymore. ~Michael Patrick King

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.~Michel de Montaigne

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can’t hope for a fairer match. ~Todd Ruthman

Unjust. How many times I’ve used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don’t have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. ~Lillian Hellman

Only you can set you free. ~Living Colour, “Cult of Personality”

I am my own heaven and hell! ~J.C.F. von Schiller

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown. ~Emily Saliers
We must be our own before we can be another’s. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. ~D.H. Lawrence

To wash one’s hair, make one’s toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure. ~Sei Shonagon

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. ~Laurence van der Post

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ~Mark Twain

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.~Katherine Anne Porter

The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds. ~Martin H. Fischer

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ~Confucius

There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself. ~Roscoe Snowden

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance. ~Attributed to Richard M. Nixon

The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge. ~Eckhart

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme. ~Daniel Defoe

My life has been one great big joke, A dance that’s walked, A song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself. ~Maya Angelou

What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne