Simone Weil Quotes

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

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.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I know what my identity is.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

There's only one person who knows me - and that's me.