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Self Quotes by Haruki Murakami
- My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street…
- Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.
- This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I…
- What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this…
- Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of course, it’s the…
- There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I…
- 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,…
- sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go…
- Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or…
- Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
- I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when…
- The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is…
- When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.
- Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If…
- A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its…
- Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded…
- Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer…
- No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years…
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster