“I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.”
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Void and Compensation (1947), p. 200
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”
Book II, Ch. 16
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“No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.”
Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 630, as translated in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999); spoken by Dido.
“Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.”
Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 21
Context: “I saw myself,” Taran answered. “In the time I watched, I saw strength – and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other.
“But this, too, I saw,” he went on. “Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.”
“I am not like
other people.
I am
burning in hell. the hell of
myself.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer