“ ...the other's self, that enormous hulking thing each possessed, that a self of course is not inconsequential. p124 Jane Hamilton
“ ... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology. Abraham Verghese
“ Why were there no words that spoke positively about being concerned about the self? Why was there only negative connotation in terms like "selfish", "self-interested", "self-centred", "self-obsessed"… A.J. Dalton
“ Humans have invented all kinds of symbols to communicate not only with other humans but more importantly with ourselves. José Luis Ruiz
“ For a moment the radio wavered between stationsand I was so busymaking myself marvelous. S. Jane Sloat
“ I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me. Lev Grossman
“ […] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock,… Anita Brookner
“ One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten / million years, / I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal chee… Walt Whitman
“ Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as wat… C.S. Lewis
“ He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glasses. James Joyce
“ Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time. Jandy Nelson
“ Badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of t… Anthony Burgess
“ Neither you, nor me, are "just vampires." Being vampires is just a part of what we are. There is no need to feel bound and chained by it. Tomu Ohmi
“ I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize… Marguerite Duras
