Body Quote by Seth

The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it…

— Erving Goffman

If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.

— Faith Sullivan

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to…

— Thandie Newton

This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it…

— Jerry Stahl

“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we…

— Erich Fromm

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the…

— Frederick Lenz

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we…

— Erich Fromm

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by…

— David Brooks

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

— Leo Tolstoy

A person is bound to live like a human being before he dies. As every life, whether it's mean or meaningful, ends up in…

— Chandrababu VS

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and…

— Peter Kreeft

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to…

— Diane Ackerman