Maurice Blanchot Quotes

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

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 don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

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

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a journey into faith and doubt at once.

I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.

It's not like I have all the answers.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.