Oneself Quotes

1593 Oneself quotes by 905 unique authors

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing… — Irvin D. Yalom
Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to… — Mark Epstein
One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a… — Virginia Woolf
The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no… — Virginia Woolf
She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was,… — Anne Fortier
To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such… — Ted Dekker
The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer… — Peter HÃ¸eg
Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous… — David Rakoff
It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous.… — N.K. Jemisin
He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires. — Wendell Berry
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda — Ouida
To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself. — Soren Kierkegaard
And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a… — Emile Zola
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in… — Mary McCarthy
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive… — R. D. Laing
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. — Carl Jung
I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles… — George Eliot
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. — C.S. Lewis
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to… — Simone de Beauvoir
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself. — G I Gurdjieff
Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the… — Catherynne M. Valente
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing. — Frida Kahlo

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