Delmore Schwartz Quotes

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to have no connection with me. Perhaps because the name is quite common, it never seems to fit me, or fit me alone. Nevertheless, when I see the name, I always feel a peculiar sense of shame.

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

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

I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

I don't ever feel like anybody knows who I am.

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on.

I feel so detached from what I am on the outside. The person I am on the inside is very separate.

I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self from what I became so much.

'Famous' is a very weird word. I feel like - I feel like that's definitely not me.

I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.