„From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I“

— Fernando Pessoa

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„The position I early was enabled to take was one of self-reliance. And were all women as sure of their wants as I was, the result would be the same. But they are so overloaded with precepts and guardians who think that nothing is so much to be dreaded for a woman as originality of thought or character, that their minds are impeded with doubts till they lose their chance of fair, free proportions. The difficulty is to get them to the point from which they shall naturally develop self-respect, and learn self-help.“
— Margaret Fuller
„I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.“
— Sylvia Plath
„In a day, sometimes I feel so much love for the world, I think my heart is bursting. Sometimes, I feel so scared, I want to shrink myself even further.“
— Yoko Ono
„My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think … and I can't prevent myself from thinking.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy, whose essential endeavor is to surmount the self; and everything I do, everything I think is only myself and the selfs humiliations.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.“
— Hannah Arendt
„I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.“
— Cassandra Clare