Francis Bacon Quotes

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

I don't think anyone really knows me.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

One of my problems is to find the self.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

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.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

I discovered myself!

Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.