Markus Zusak Quotes

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it.

I never know how much of what I say is true.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

I try to find my deepest, often hidden feelings about what's working and what's not. This is difficult because I do lie to myself without being aware that that's what I'm doing.

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

It's rare that you're sure you're right in life. I'm finding that.

I try and act like I'm all there. But I'm not!

I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

I think we all do: I think we wonder if we're supposed to be here, if we're doing the right thing, if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time.