Complex Self Quotes

I think I have a lot of crazy layers.

I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what we were before, a setting aside of the old self in favor of a more complex one.

But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!

People have multiple identities.

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

I think I'm not always what I seem.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.

The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.

We are more than one part of ourselves.

How can I know who I am when I am all this?

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

When I think about what fiction does morally, I'm happier thinking of a person full of multiplicities - sort of fragmented.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .

When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas.

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

I live many lives at once.