David Hewlett Quotes

Perhaps I'm just over-sensitive.

I think I'm a romantic person, yeah.

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

No one's comfortable with losing.

Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that I wrote only when there were obstacles and halts to the flow of life, seldom when everything was smooth and even. ... As I read I distinctly felt what a half-truth a diary presents.

You can only see in others what is inside of you.

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It’s not a tool to understand myself.

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.

Don't I ever do anything else but take soulful walks down the Bayswater Road, I thought, as I walked soulfully down the Baywater Road.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.

If you look weird, you can blame the role, you know? So no one's going to tell me I'm having a mid-life crisis.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.

I'm always happy. I've just got a mean face.

Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

When someone new comes into your life and suddenly you feel more alive, more beautiful, more sexual, more creative, more desirable and more engaged; you feel that this new person is the key to those feelings. But actually, you have these qualities too. What you don't see and don't acknowledge in yourself, you project onto someone else. Carl Jung explored this very well. He called it projection.

Lacey shrugged bashfully. “Do you think I’m superficial?” “Well, yeah.” I thought of myself standing outside Becca’s bedroom, hoping she’d take her shirt off. “But so am I,” I added. “So is everyone.

I usually look in my eyes to tell the truth of how I'm feeling that day.

What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.

I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for popularity is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.

The key is your thoughts and feelings, and you have been holding the key in your hand all of your life.

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.