Titus Flavius Vespasian Quotes

Woe is me. Me thinks I'm turning into a god.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

I was a changed being after that fight. I was nothing before. I was a man now.

'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole.

Most of my world is in London, and I feel like this is where I went mad and ended up finding myself.

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and entertaining the wrong people with the wrong material and that I was not being true to myself. I went through a metamorphosis into something more authentic for me, a more authentic stage voice and writing voice.

Don't ever forget the moment you began to doubt, transitioning from fitting in to standing out.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.