Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes — Ayn Rand
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out… — Neil Gaiman
The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself. — Patricia Highsmith
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself! — Belle de Jour
Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no… — Emile M. Cioran
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it… — Carl Jung
I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself. — Rabih Alameddine
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the… — Leo Tolstoy
The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but… — Ezra Pound
One truly must have suffered oneself to help others. — Mother Teresa
Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security… — Anthony Bourdain
The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you… — George Orwell
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. — Frank Herbert
The real thinkers of the world aren't the best dressed. Staying on top of the latest fashions, accessorizing, and presenting oneself is time consuming. It… — Karen Marie Moning
In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. — Leo Tolstoy
The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself. — Mary Balogh
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling,… — Susan Sontag
Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self… — Bruce Lee
I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone… — Mary Balogh
There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is… — Mary Balogh
The final mystery is oneself. — Oscar Wilde
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself. — Booker T. Washington
He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least.… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds… — Alexandre Dumas

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