David Hume Quotes

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

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

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

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

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

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

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.'

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

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

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

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.