Heinrich Heine Quotes

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize 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.

I don't even recognize myself sometimes.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.

But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.

I once was the walrus, now I'm John.

I am the most unhappy soul alive." "I'd heard it said that fairies have no souls." "Then do I ache, and bleed, and smart, elsewhere; still, call it soul for it is solely mine.

I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

It was strange and amusing...and, honestly, a bit embarrassing...to realize how much being near Bella had softened me. It seemed like no one was afraid of me any more. If Emmett found out about this, he would be laughing for the next century.

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.