Wilhelm Reich Quotes

I have faced up to what I am.

It's very hard to look at the man in the mirror. Because you can't hide anything.

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.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

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.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.

I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

At some point, we all reach that moment where it's such a waste of energy to act as if you know things that you really don't. It's really kind of liberating to be okay with that.

I don't find myself intriguing.

2020 for me is a really big year of realness and authenticity and just being who I am.

Sometimes you've got to put your realistic glasses on and see who you are.

I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.