T. S. Eliot Quotes

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

I've criticized myself over the years.

It's my own conscience that gets to me more so than anybody thinking about me. I think too much.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.

Everybody is their own critic.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

I am critical of myself.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

I'm very critical of myself.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.