D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

You know, most people really don't know me.

You cannot analyse your personality. It is like trying to understand the essential characteristics of a person.

I'm not what I make.

I only know how to be Sizzle.

Talking about myself is difficult for me. It's anti my true nature.

There's only one person who knows me - and that's me.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

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.

Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.

I have trouble actually describing myself because I'm always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I'm like, "OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?"

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

I am only me for practical purposes.