Lydia Lunch Quotes

Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

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.'

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

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.

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 felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.

When a man is extremely lonely, he starts discovering himself.

I'm a different girl almost every time I look in the mirror.

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

I don't even recognize myself sometimes.