Find Oneself Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection,…
— Jacques Monod
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Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
— John Cazale
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There is no one who has no leisure time at all. The office is not a permanent sanctuary, and Sundays are an institution. Thus, in…
— Siegfried Kracauer
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Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to…
— Kurt Tucholsky
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No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found.…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born.…
— Amy Carmichael
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Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up…
— Lauren Willig
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To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
— Brand Blanshard
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If you can sit at set of sun And count the deeds that you have done And counting find oneself-denying act, one word That eased…
— Robert Browning
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To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for…
— Deepak Chopra
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Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself…
— Jacques Lacan
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I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-…
— Philip Pullman
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To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the…
— Joan Didion
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One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . .…
— May Sarton
Who Wrote These Find Oneself Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Find Oneself Quotes as follows: