self-awareness Quotes

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

We are what we believe we are.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.