Jay Asher Quotes

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery.

Can't get away from your own self.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.

I don't find myself intriguing.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

Every one of us is the sum total of his own thoughts

Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness.

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap or the person people think I am.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I don't think the way I look at myself has changed.

I am determined and resigned to being self-conscious.

I don't analyse myself.

I hope that when you see my work, you are looking at yourself looking.

I know the things I say go out of my own mouth and into my own ears.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.