“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”

“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.”

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer

“Hell is oneself,
Hell is alone.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“Except for cases of pathological incapacity, one can and must communicate, and thereby contribute in a useful and easy way to the peace of others and oneself, because silence, the absence of signals, is itself a signal, but an ambiguous one, and ambiguity generates anxiety and suspicion. To say that it is impossible to communicate is false; one always can.”

Primo Levi book The Drowned and the Saved

“One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.”

Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) US philosopher (1907-1977)

“When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea

“It is easier to be wise for others than for oneself.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”

Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)