Old Self Quotes
61 quotes by 59 authors
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Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the…
— Tom O'Connor
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You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.
— Hugh Laurie
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
— Clare Boothe Luce
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'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act…
— Jason Reitman
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By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to…
— Michael Sheen
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Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a…
— Neil Gaiman
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Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
— Edith Wharton
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Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat, despair, doubt, and…
— Thomas S. Monson
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You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface,…
— Haruki Murakami
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Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the…
— Steve Martin
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Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at…
— Katherine Paterson
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If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self tenaciously,…
— Ann Brashares
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Finally, Peeta turns to Pollux. "Well, then you just became our most valuable asset." Castor laughs and Pollux manages a smile. We're halfway down the…
— Suzanne Collins
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It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with…
— John Fowles
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Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.†Dannyl straightened in protest.…
— Trudi Canavan
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Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get…
— Danielle Steel
Who Wrote These Old Self Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 61 Old Self Quotes, led by these top contributors: