Herta Muller Quotes

Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

I've been so in my moment about my life.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.