Oneself Quotes - Page 8

One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.

Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

One eventually has enough even of oneself.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.

To be naked is to be oneself.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

It's dangerous to assert oneself.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.