Joseph Brodsky Quotes

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.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

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.'

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

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.

I hope that when you see my work, you are looking at yourself looking.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

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

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

I find myself fascinating.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

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.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

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

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.