Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

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

In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

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

Sometimes I have that kind of critical mind to myself as well. This is because there are times where I have to do things that I don't wish to.

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

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

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.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

I don't see outside of me.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.