David Ogilvy Quotes

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

My joy is as painful as my pain.

Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.

When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?

Ah, why can't I know if I love, or if I hate?

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Before I turned 30, I worked to create Ksenia Sobchak. Ksenia Sobchak turned out to be appalling and terrible in some respects, but nice in others.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

I'm not sure if I'd call myself an extrovert. I think I'm a bit contradictory. I like being endearing and venomous at the same time. I guess it's one part of myself fighting against the other part, proving that I'm not that nice all the time.

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.

I look into people's eyes and I know they think I'm a bad guy.

Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.