Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

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.

I find myself fascinating.

I am not very introspective.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I don't interest myself that much.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.

A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.

I've always enjoyed people studying themselves in the mirror, and I also enjoy those 'walk and feel bad' shots. I like anything that isolates people and focuses them on themselves, or makes us focus on their faces as they're going through something.

There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.