Anne Sexton Quotes

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

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.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

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

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

I do have sometimes a difficult time watching myself.

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

A lot of my music is just self-observation. Like telling you, "Oh man. What did I just do? How much did I just pay for this chain? Why did I do that? Wait a minute." Let me talk about that. Or like, the temptation. Let me talk about that. Let me observe myself.

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.