Different Selves Quotes

“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves—how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one “role” to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I’m supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it’s successfully executed.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“I’ve created various personalities within. I constantly create personalities. Each of my dreams, as soon as I start dreaming it, is immediately incarnated in another person, who is then the one dreaming it, and not I.

To create, I’ve destroyed myself. I’ve so externalized myself on the inside that I don’t exist there except externally. I’m the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Non décidément je n'écrirai pas... Il ne faut pas, il faut "continuer"." C'est une lettre à moi-même. La jeune fille interrompt la survivante : "Tais-toi, tout dire, c'est mourir." Elles cohabitent dans le même corps, l'une cherche la vie, l'autre flirte encore avec la mort. Il m'a fallu du temps pour les réconcilier.”
― Marceline Loridan-Ivens, L'Amour après