Self Quote by Hanif Kureishi Download Open image ““I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.”” — Hanif Kureishi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Self
“If leaving is the right thing to do, then I'll hurt myself to keep from hurting you, to keep you safe.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Struggle until you can't struggle anymore. Just now you decided to live your life... Don't run away.” — Matsuri Hino Copy Share Image
“You pretend that a piece of yourself doesn't exist. You live like that for a long time. For a long time, you're safe. And… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“It's so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world...Leaving feels too good, once you leave.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“I've never toughened up enough to handle what I'd have to handle if I were to stay.” — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Maybe I should give up and go back the way I came. But I stay. I detest fear. I hate being scared. There is… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
“The feeling of leaving, even when you don’t want to. The feeling that sometimes things just can’t be fixed.” — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“For me, life is too short, or too long, to allow myself the luxury of living it badly.” — Itayi Garande Copy Share Image
“He insists that I need nothing more than to let myself be carried away- and that even my greatest fears are unfounded.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“People who were only ever half right about things drove me mad. I hated the flood of opinion, the certainty, the easy talk about… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
“Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. — David D. Burns Copy Share Image