Alan Watts Quotes

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.'

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

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.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I know what I don't want.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves.

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.