Don DeLillo Quotes

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

I'm nobody, who are you?

We must be our own before we can be another's.

I don't find myself intriguing.

I don't want to be a personality.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

No-one but me gets into my head.

I'm a private person; I'm pretty to myself.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

I'm just a weird mix of immature and intelligent and I like to share my point of view and who I am.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

I don't want to lose myself for someone else.

There are a lot of layers to me.