„I’m afraid I can’t explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?“

— Lewis Carroll
„it's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.“
— Margaret Atwood
„Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.“
— Jane Austen
„God is an American.I'm afraid of Americans.I'm afraid of the world.I'm afraid I can't help it.I'm afraid I can't“
— David Bowie
„I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.“
— Haruki Murakami
„I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.“
— Frida Kahlo