quotes about myself [Theme]



Can you believe me - without? I don’t have a portrait now, but I’m small, like a wren bird, and my hair is coarse, like the thorns on a chestnut tree, and my eyes are like cherries at the bottom of a glass from which a guest drank a cocktail. Well, how?
Quote Explanation: From a letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson. July 1862.
№ 459987   Added MegaMozg 12-12-2023 / 01:12
I won't be famous or great. I want to take risks, change, delve into my thoughts and be surprised by what I see, and I don’t want to be stamped and like others. The point is to gain your freedom; define yourself, but do not limit yourself.
Quote Explanation: Diary of a writer (1918-1941).
№ 459985   Added MegaMozg 12-12-2023 / 00:39
There was no crowd showing sympathy.
№ 459936   Added MegaMozg 10-12-2023 / 01:51
The mood is dejected; the desire to quickly find yourself on a completely uninhabited island, and sometimes even to fall through the tartar.
Quote Explanation: December 8, 1880
№ 459616   Added Viker 07-12-2023 / 12:59
If I were given a chance to live my life again, I am sure of two things: firstly, I would become an actress as early as possible. And secondly, soon after that I would marry Laurence Olivier. If necessary, she would suggest this idea to him.
№ 459415   Added Viker 07-12-2023 / 12:28
I'm not a whipping girl.
№ 458846   Added Viker 05-12-2023 / 12:56
I really appreciate every kind word spoken to me.
№ 458825   Added Viker 05-12-2023 / 12:52
Probably, all day I did not hear or say a worthwhile word, that is, a lasting word, that is, that would be of use. If I didn’t have correspondence, the auditory window of my mind and heart could be boarded up.
Quote Explanation: Notebooks (book eight, 1829-1830).
№ 458356   Added MegaMozg 08-11-2023 / 17:21
The good thing about a garbage dump is that it immediately makes you sick (this is for vulgar and petty people with whom you often have to communicate). I became demanding of people as of my creativity. If communication with a person makes me feel false, it means that the person is worthless - and past him.
Quote Explanation: From a diary of 1930
№ 458195   Added MegaMozg 03-11-2023 / 01:06
I don’t want anyone to decide my future for me, to determine in which direction I should develop. I'll try to get to this point on my own. This is what I understand by the word freedom.
№ 458184   Added MegaMozg 02-11-2023 / 17:33
In addition, the huge reserve of a cheerful character could not be depleted; he did his best to restore spiritual balance, and gloomy moments alternated with the most ordinary cheerful ones. Life went on as usual, the dark moments became brighter at first, then less frequent, then disappeared. In my diary I deal more with facts than with moods: I love life itself, not so much.
№ 458081   Added Viker 31-10-2023 / 13:14
I do not tolerate unnecessary information and confessions.
Quote Explanation: From a letter to Boris Messerer, June 16, 1988
№ 458074   Added Viker 31-10-2023 / 13:13
I think loneliness can be something amazing if you fear it enough.
Quote Explanation: Letters to Konikova (1941).
№ 458073   Added Viker 31-10-2023 / 13:13
I am an optimistic pessimist. I believe that humanity will perish. But life as such will still continue - at least something will exist...
№ 457544   Added Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:48
Love yourself, love your life, treat yourself fairly, put your goals first, take care of your mental and physical health, respect yourself, don't let anyone treat you badly, prove to yourself that you are the best person on this earth and that you will achieve everything.
Quote Explanation: About self-love.
№ 457318   Added Viker 31-10-2023 / 11:12