Talking To Oneself Quotes

#1. Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is it any wonder that language is an area of such interest in psychology?
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)

Mort W. Lumsden

#2. The only problem with not talking to oneself was that oneself was the most fascinating conversational partner one could imagine. Nobody had more patience in listening to one than oneself, and while nobody knew one better than oneself, nobody misunderstood one more than oneself.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#3. Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

Ruth Rendell

#4. Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Richard Wilbur

#5. Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

Grant Morrison

#6. If only talking to oneself did not look mad, no day would go by without my being heard growling to myself. - you silly shit!

Michel De Montaigne

#7. I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

Michael Silverblatt

#8. Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being 'prideful,' is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin.

Howard Rheingold

#9. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.

Richard P. Feynman

#10. To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'

Iris Apfel

#11. How can one know when he is stabilized in love? First, he is able to pour out his love upon others without demanding reciprocation. He can love without being loved. Second, he can meet recurrences of rejection with forgiveness. He will not react wrongly by anger, resentment or self-pity. Be

Frank Hammond

#12. Poetry is truth ... It is the highest truth, and eloquence is its attribute.

Anne Rice

#13. Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

Peggy Noonan

#14. Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

Amor Towles

#15. Cara sipped her juice and then said, "Talking about de-stressing oneself ... " She laughed softly. "You've got to see the River Dancing Festival tonight at the park. It's great entertainment. They might even teach you how to River Dance. Sometimes they do that.:

Linda Weaver Clarke

#16. I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

Giacomo Leopardi

#17. Truth is produced, not discovered, and is a property not of the world but of statements.

Lee Patterson

#18. All which isn't singing is mere talking ... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and lovers)singing is silence

E. E. Cummings

#19. I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Stephen Fry

#20. That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

Cynthia Weil

#21. Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me die still loving, and so, never die.

Mary Zimmerman

#22. Life is short. Life goes fast. And what I really want to do in my life is to bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world. I try to think of that every day so that I can remember why I am coming to my studio.

Ross Bleckner

#23. Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.

John Berger

#25. Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. Forgiveness doesn't mean we have to pretend someone didn't hurt us.

Virginia H. Pearce

#27. Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

Lemony Snicket

#28. I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts ...

Dora Russell

#29. They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong.

Tom Robbins

#30. I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.

Nicholas Nixon

#31. The less one knows about oneself, the more one enjoys talking about oneself

Guy Finley

#32. He talked to himself because there weren't many people as learned as he, and he liked to talk to learned people.

Frank Beddor

#33. In the immortal words of Duke Vaughn, "If you don't have anything nice to say, take a big bite and chew slow.

Matthew FitzSimmons