D. H. Lawrence Quotes

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

We are what we think we are - not what we appear to be on the outside.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I'm not what I make.

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.

You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.

My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.

when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading. And if we don't honor ourselves by listening to our lives, we'll believe them.

You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes, plowing through mixed metaphors, noise, and will try to show the core, which is still there, as a core, and is valid, despite the fog. The core is the core is the core. There is always the core, that can’t be articulated. Only caricatured.

To know who you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.

The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

Remember who you really are and be that.

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

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

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