Diane Kruger Quotes

I think people have a lot of layers. I know I do in particular.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

There are a lot of layers to me.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

We are not always even what we are most.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

I can't stand [female] characters that are not empowered in a certain way, or at least don't come to a conclusion at the end of the movie where they find empowerment in themselves.

You have to be willing to expose yourself, at least to yourself, to get to some kind of truth about a character.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

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.

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself. But then on the other hand, the way I do my work, I always try to only completely focus on my work, so when I do my work I'm only interested in my character. So I don't have an idea of what it means for my career. So this is why I don't feel like I need to be discovered, because I feel like even without being discovered, I will be fine.

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."