Former Self Quotes

“My younger self had come back to shock my older self with what that self had been, or was, or was sometimes capable of being. And only recently I’d been going on about how the witnesses to our lives decrease, and with them our essential corroboration. Now I had some all too unwelcome corroboration of what I was, or had been.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Writing is my greatest adventure as it takes me deep into the psychology of the self, the dark woods containing entombed skeleton of a former self, and the secrets of a future self. Until I demystify all aspects of being, I will be forevermore chasing an enigmatic persona, and living with an unholy pack of insecurities, self-doubts, and unchecked skepticism and pessimism. Until I discover how to preserve the independence of solitude, I will always doubt myself and live an anxious and worrisome life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“English: "When memories of your past selves come together, you can be a collective to yourself."

Česky: „Když se sejdou vzpomínky na tvá minulá já, můžeš být sám sobě kolektivem.”
― Sebastián Wortys

“The person I used to be would have been horrified at everything I'd just done. She'd have called these candles, the yoga, every single detail of my new life, a bunch of cottagecore bullshit.
But I wasn't speaking with that person anymore.
She'd never once led me in the right direction.”
― Jenna Levine, Road Trip With a Vampire