Aidan Chambers Quotes

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Introspection! I hate it!

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.