„I myself, from the very beginning,
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a reflection in someone else's mirror,
Without flesh, without meaning, without a name.
Already I knew the list of crimes
That I was destined to commit.“
Anna Andrejewna Achmatowa
russische Dichterin und Schriftstellerin 1889 - 1966Ähnliche Zitate
„You made me forget myself; I thought I was someone else, someone good.“
— Lou Reed American musician 1942 - 2013
Perfect Day
Lyrics
„I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.“
— David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
Variante: I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.
Quelle: Boy Meets Boy
— P. D. Ouspensky Russian esotericist 1878 - 1947
Card I : The Magician http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/sot/sot02.htm
The Symbolism of the Tarot (1913)
Kontext: I Saw the Man.
His figure reached from earth to heaven and was clad in a purple mantle. He stood deep in foliage and flowers and his head, on which was the head-band of an initiate, seemed to disappear mysteriously in infinity.
Before him on a cube-shaped altar were four symbols of magic — the sceptre, the cup, the sword and the pentacle.
His right hand pointed to heaven, his left to earth. Under his mantle he wore a white tunic girded with a serpent swallowing its tail.
His face was luminous and serene, and, when his eyes met mine, I felt that he saw most intimate recesses of my soul. I saw myself reflected in him as in a mirror and in his eyes I seemed to look upon myself.
And I heard a voice saying:
—"Look, this is the Great Magician!
„A crime is something someone else commits.“
— John Steinbeck, buch The Winter of Our Discontent
Quelle: The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part Two, Chapter XX
— Fernando Pessoa, buch Das Buch der Unruhe des Hilfsbuchhalters Bernardo Soares
Quelle: The Book of Disquiet
„I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.“
— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020
— Donald Miller, buch Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
„I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.“
— Hugo Chávez 48th President of Venezuela 1954 - 2013
„I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.“
— Margaret Cho American stand-up comedian 1968
And I'm gonna stay here and rock the mike until the next Korean-American, fag hag, shit starter, girl comic, trash talker comes up and takes my place!
From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour
— Leigh Brackett American novelist and screenwriter 1915 - 1978
Quelle: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 10 (p. 65)
— John Brown (abolitionist) American abolitionist 1800 - 1859
This was written on a note that he had at his execution (2 December 1859), most sources say it was handed to the guard, but some dispute that and claim it was handed to a reporter accompaning him; as quoted in John Brown and his Men https://books.google.com/books?id=uiaYWp66b-cC&pg=PR1&dq=John+Brown+and+his+Men+%281894%29+by+Richard+Josiah+Hinton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Uub_VN3CN5HbggTdxIK4Cw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Brown%20and%20his%20Men%20(1894)%20by%20Richard%20Josiah%20Hinton&f=false (1894) by Richard Josiah Hinton, p. 398.
— Evelyn Waugh British writer 1903 - 1966
Quelle: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
