Sushmita Sen Quotes

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I want people to find their inner depth.

You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.