Francois Villon Quotes

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

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

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

It took me a while to find myself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

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.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.

You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it's not that easy.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.

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.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.

I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.

A lot of time when you're out injured is spent with internal reflection and kind of looking at yourself in the mirror and deciding who you want to be and where you fit in.

Because if I am someone else for so many months, it affects me, physically, in my brain, in my being. So then I have to take care of that, and make myself more like me again.

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.