Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves.

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

I did a radio interview; the DJ's first question was "Who are you?" I had to think. Is this guy really deep, or did I drive to the wrong station?

It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.

I've only ever been mistaken for myself. People draw a lot of comparisons to all of the round-faced, mustached men of entertainment that make me cringe and sick to my stomach about how the world really sees me and they're right.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

I would like to break out of this "dark, brooding" image, cause I'm actually not like that at all. In Ireland, brooding is a term we use for hens. A brooding hen is supposed to lay eggs. Everytime somebody says "He's dark and brooding" I think: "He's about to lay an egg".