Russell Brand Quotes

But we are such deceivers that we will not look at ourselves in relationship, because there the real face can be seen. So we close our eyes to relationship, and we go on thinking that something is going to be seen inside. You cannot see anything inside.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

To know me is to love me. This cliche is popular for a reason, because most of us, I imagine, believe deep in our hearts that if anyone truly got to know us, they'd truly get to love us - or at least know why we're the way we are. The problem in life, maybe the central problem, is that so few people ever seem to have sufficient curiosity to do the job on us that we know we deserve.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

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

It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

Well, it's true that you often kind of forget to see the person you're most intimate with, but occasionally I'll come to and sort of think, 'Oh my God! You're really, really good-looking! I'm embarrassed now! It's nice to occasionally have that flash.

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.