Diane Ackerman Quotes

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

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.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.

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

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

I could easily not be the person that people know.