Nature Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.”

— Marcel Proust

“There is nothing like desire for preventing the things one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one's mind.”

— Plum Sykes

“It's a razor's edge kind of innocence, which relies on a willingness to be duped for the sake of transcending ordinary experience, for the…

— Maud Casey

“I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance…

— Emil Cioran

“There is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.”

— Dinaw Mengestu

“Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after…

— Suzy Kassem

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in…

— Herman Melville

“Man searches constantly for identity, he thought as he trotted along the gravel path. He has no real proof of this existence except for…

— Peter S. Beagle

“There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.”

— Craig Johnson

“In the heroic effort of the individual to attain universality, in the attempt to transcend the curse of individuation and to become the one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One must as willingly be nothing, as something.

— Amy Carmichael