Quotes of: Myself Keyword

I was amazed at how routine, how mechanically this most powerful intellect was created. It was no burst of inspiration, but almost physical labor instead. I asked myself: was it the same way for God?

Semmant

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

Summer of the Gypsy Moths

Don’t be stupider than you need to be, I remind myself. Remember Calease? The last glowing girl you talked to tried to kill you.

Sing Sweet Nightingale

Arianna, what's up?" "Is there a reason there's a blond boy jumping on your bed, or should I kill him?" "Don't bother," I growled. "I'll kill him myself.

Supernaturally

All my life, I've been trying to fill an emptiness inside. But that emptiness...I've built myself around it. Filling it in would be like filling in the empty space within a cathedral.

Spellbound

I’ll insist my competitor is the greatest, so that when I beat him, I won’t be calling myself the greatest—I’ll be proving it through my actions. 

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

Sister

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

The Setting Sun

I have this strange feeling none of this is really happening. Like I'm standing far away from myself. Like nothing is real. Have you ever had a feeling like that?

Sister

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

I’m a logician. No matter how wrong I am, I can always convince myself I am right.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

There is a time in every life when paths are chosen, character is forged. I could have chosen a different path. But I didn’t. I failed myself.

The Sweet Far Thing

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

She's Come Undone

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

Searching for God Knows What

I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time.

Swann's Way

It has never been my goal to impress anyone but myself. That has proven challenging enough.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

Six Years

I am speaking of something deeper. I am speaking of everything a being can give another. This is what I offer you. I offer myself.

The Ties That Bind

As I bathe myself I pray with all beings that we can purify body and mind and clean ourselves inside and out.

A Tale for the Time Being

People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw because I'm not trying to sell myself to anybody.

Teenage Idol

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

The Poisonwood Bible