Stanley Hoffmann Quotes

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that."

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.

I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.

I feel alone and safe in public.

I am the person I am. Everybody has to respect that.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

No dignity without distance.