Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike… — Virginia Woolf
Envy is an insult to oneself. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other. — Romola Garai
She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning. — Ayn Rand
It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before… — Rainer Maria Rilke
What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin… — Graham Greene
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing… — Marcel Duchamp
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really… — Vladimir Nabokov
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one… — Ayn Rand
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. — Leonardo da Vinci
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. — Gustave Flaubert
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. — Oscar Wilde
Free yourself from one passion to be dominated by another and nobler one. But is not that, too, a form of slavery? To sacrifice oneself… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by… — Neil Gaiman
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. — Joan Didion
If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were… — David Zindell
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart… — Carlos Castaneda
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above… — Rene Daumal
For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of… — Virginia Woolf

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