Identity Quote by Jan Neruda

“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”

— Marcel Proust

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

— Ivan Turgenev

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to…

— Sharon Olds

Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where…

— Takuan Soho

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

— Anonymous

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the…

— Denis Diderot

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

— Simone Weil

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

— Carl Jung

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

— Leo Tolstoy

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

— Henry Rollins

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

— Anonymous

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis