Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

I don't feel like there has ever really been anyone like me, and I'm starting to realize that. Not in a cocky way, but in a very humbling way.

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

It's easy to forget who you are.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Nobody wants to be nameless. Nobody wanna be forgotten.

All I want to do in my life is be known as me and for what I do.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.

We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.