Old Self Quotes

#1. But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

Pablo Neruda

#2. You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Hugh Laurie

#3. With the cross around his neck he could be his old self again, he could have it all back if he wanted it, but it wasn't worth having. If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. - Horns p.381

Joe Hill

#4. My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!'

Miley Cyrus

#5. I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.

Nelly Furtado

#6. Some guys don't have to work out as hard as other guys do, but if you balance all that together then your longevity is definitely going to be greater. So, I would tell my 20-year-old self not to over-train.

Andre Reed

#7. I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it

Taylor Swift

#8. The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest like the grownups I saw, nodding politely to each other without affection, and decided to put my true self in a time capsule for later use.

Aurora Levins Morales

#9. Because no matter how far you may travel, you are what you are, and even when you are flying at thrilling new heights, circling the sun and thinking you belong in the halo of that perfect golden light, you do not. The wings always melt, and you always crash-land in your same old self.

Jeff Lindsay

#10. Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager, a self conscious young adult) who no longer exists.

Deepak Chopra

#11. ask what your 20-year-old self would think of you today, we invite you to think about what your 70, 80 or 100-year-old self would think of you now.

Lynda Gratton

#12. If I had any advice for my 16-year-old self, it would just be to stay strong, because acting is not an easy lifestyle, especially when you are starting out. That being said, it definitely makes it all worth it when it does happen.

Melissa Benoist

#13. If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I'd have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he'd just drum his fingers and go, 'When? How long is that going to take?'

Robert Webb

#14. The last remnants of Deanna the child--the idealist, the sheltered elite--had been torn loose by tonight's tragedies, slain with the same bullet that had felled her would-be killer. She had no idea who the new person inhabiting this shell of her old self would become. The realization frightened her.

Leslie Ann Moore

#15. I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'

Queen Latifah

#16. On the outside, he was back to his old self. Only, I knew there was a wound living inside him, and that wound wasn't going away anytime soon.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#17. She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

Doris Lessing

#18. So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.

Shunryu Suzuki

#19. I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.

David Tennant

#20. He was my husband, my apartment mate, my soul mate, the father of the little plant in my confused soil, the lover who had made me adore his body without inhibition after my years of relative solitude, the person for whom I'd given up my old self.

Elizabeth Kostova

#21. A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

Aldous Huxley

#23. I can feel my old self come out more and more in trainings.

Charlie Davies

#24. Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, from all those things that kept you tethered to your past.

Jennifer E. Smith

#25. as their eyes met she got that feeling again, that sensation of there being something huge between them, something she couldn't quite define, something her twenty-year-old self might have called 'passion' and her thirty-year-old self might have more cynically called 'chemistry'.

Liane Moriarty

#26. That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

Cornel West

#27. You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else.

Haruki Murakami

#28. I would tell my 14 year old self to never ever, ever put all of your money in one bank account. And love the ones who love you back. You're going to want to quit ... DON'T! Oh, and get everything in writing.

Brandi L. Bates

#29. Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the hall light. In my head, I heard Beck say to my small nine-year-old self, 'Why do we need every light in the house on? Are you signaling to aliens?

Maggie Stiefvater

#30. You can't take your same old self into a bright new future. You would only darken it.

Chris Brady

#31. If I'd said that to my sensible, smutty, twelve-year-old self, he would have laughed until he hemorrhaged

Greg Egan

#32. The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.

Max Von Sydow

#33. Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

Danielle Steel

#34. Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

Rumi

#35. What remained would gradually acquire its own shape and dimension, but many of our favorite things, my favorite ways of being a couple, had vanished and it was no use pretending, hoping, wishing that he would return to his old self, and me to mine. [p. 156]

Diane Ackerman

#36. A man has only one escape from his old self - to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Clare Boothe Luce

#37. I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

Jim Crace

#38. He knew that so long as the vestiges of his old self remained with him, his new self would never be safe from ridicule and incomprehension.

A. Igoni Barrett

#39. Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.

Jeanne DuPrau

#40. Sometimes when she thought of Eric, and now more powerfully when she saw him, she felt some achy nostalgia for her old self. For the dauntless, daring soul she used to be. There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone.

Ann Brashares

#41. In a while the organism will repair itself, and I, the ghost within it, will be my old self again. But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float toward his end.

J.M. Coetzee

#42. I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

LeRoy Neiman

#43. By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

Michael Sheen

#44. Next week, I should be back to my old self."
"I hope not." Dallas nudged me with his shoulder.

Veronica Blade

#45. The old self seemed unprecedentedly heavier than the surrounding atmosphere.

Aldous Huxley

#46. The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending.

Sorin Cerin

#47. You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.

John Darnielle

#48. 'Looper' is about what your 55-year-old self would tell your 25-year-old self over a cup of coffee. It's about finding love in the third act of your life. It's about overcoming trauma and the idea of true sacrifice.

Jason Reitman

#49. It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

Damon Albarn

#50. If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#51. I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

Steve Gleason

#52. Our competition in life is solely with our old self.

Boyd K. Packer

#53. I sometimes daydream about becoming somebody else. Anybody else. Not me. I imagine how I might lose myself, my old self.

James Preller

#54. What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?"
The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself.

Neil Gaiman

#55. 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.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#56. I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

Benedict Cumberbatch

#57. If I was to meet my eight-year-old self, I would say, 'Don't listen to what they say about you. Wear your anorak with pride!'

Peter Capaldi

#58. Ignatius, all at once you're your horrible old self. All at once I think I'm making a very big mistake.

John Kennedy Toole

#59. If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Orla Brady

#60. Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.

Bryant McGill

#61. I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

Arnulf Rainer

#62. If I ever figured out how to go back in time, I'd tell my nine-year-old self to run the other way when a gnome showed up in her room promising a life of magic and adventure.

Anna Staniszewski

#63. Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your
old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

Edith Wharton

#64. Dear 25 year old [note: not "Dear 25-year-old me" or "Dear 25-year-old self," just "Dear 25 year old"],

Allie Brosh

#65. Put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

Anonymous

#66. I didn't know whether I wanted to kill her or fuck her. Maybe both, but one thing was for sure. One way or another, I was going to make her scream. I was finally starting to feel like my old self again.

Anonymous

#67. When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift ...

Brian Andreas

#68. My new life was marking me. It was happening so quickly. There were intermittent spells of resistance, during which I'd pluck and moisturize and exfoliate, and then there was a period of grieving for my old self, who seemed to be disappearing toward the horizon, and then I relaxed into it.

Kristin Kimball

#69. I think Alice [Cooper] probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.

Johnny Depp

#70. It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

John Fowles

#71. You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.

Cornel West

#72. I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.

Mariella Frostrup

#73. She pressed her face into the pillow. His scent was there. She was stupid to have come, yet didn't have the strength to leave.
The ghost of him between the sheets. The shadow of her old self curled into the shadow of him.

Marie Rutkoski

#74. We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.

Jalaja Bonheim

#75. Then I'll cleave to my old self and spirit the full host of angels into the present with me.Even the ugly ones.

Lauren Kate

#76. She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there
like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

Katherine Paterson

#77. A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#78. Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.

Tom O'Connor

#79. Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun. And then how to know - the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table - which you, specifically, is the real one?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#80. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
Romans 6:6

Anonymous

#81. If you told my 13-year-old self that one day I'd be talking about how Tom Cruise and I had good chemistry, she'd think you were completely mad.

Rosamund Pike

#82. Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?

Em Claire

#83. Whatever voice spoke him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity. a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath.

Cormac McCarthy

#84. My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.

Sri Chinmoy

#85. Each day is new, but our lives shall be old in each new day if we fail to understand why each day is new.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#86. Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

Henry David Thoreau

#87. Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

Deepak Chopra

#88. Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.

Alain De Botton

#89. Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

J. L. B. Smith

#90. Not just self-restraint, that old killjoy, but communal restraint.

Wendell Berry

#91. For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

May Sarton

#92. Our religious systems have taught us to "train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6) I couldn't disagree more. How about, "feed a child what it needs, so when it gets grows up, it will "be" its own unique unpredictably creative self.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#93. It is only by remembering that 'Another lives in me' that we can die daily to that old, false, usurping self, and that we can continue to be drawn further in and higher up into the life of God. To 'practice the presence' is to continually call to mind this great reality.

Leanne Payne

#94. Are you going to allow the world around you to change while you remain stagnant? Make this the time you throw away old habits that have hindered your happiness and success and finally allow your greatest self to flourish.

Steve Maraboli

#95. Witches release the chapters of the past, which
invites the novels of the future.

Dacha Avelin

#96. No, I'm thinking about myself - my black old inside self, the real one, with the fundamental honesty that keeps me from being absolutely wicked by making me realize my own sins.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#97. Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.

Luc Sante

#98. Claire knew she was in control of her actions, she could choose to fight or complain. Her plan was for self-preservation until she was free. This had been a good old-fashioned thunderstorm, loud and boisterous but no real damage.

Aleatha Romig

#99. My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.

Barack Obama

#100. When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.

Kirk Kerkorian