Self-Deprecating Sayings

161 sayings found from the Modern era from 161 authors

If I am to die, I will die laughing.

— Victor Hugo 1862
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I have been so completely absorbed in myself, that I have forgotten to live.

— Franz Kafka 1910
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I am sorry that I have not been able to write to you more often, but I have been very busy, and I am also very lazy.

— James Joyce 1904
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

— Virginia Woolf 1938
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I am not a pacifist.

— George Orwell 1930s-1940s
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I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

— Aldous Huxley 1920s (referring to his youth)
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I had a lot of things to prove to myself. One was that I could live without a drink.

— Ernest Hemingway Unknown
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It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I find, in this life, I am not made for it.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald 1934
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I don't think there's any problem with writing about a woman's feelings.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1982
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I don't know whether I am a man or a dream.

— Jorge Luis Borges 1970s
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I am not at all sure that I am a popular person. But I am certainly a person who attracts a great deal of attention.

— Oscar Wilde 1890s
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I find I am not, in any sense, a literary man.

— Walt Whitman 1856
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I myself have a little cat, a German one, and though I have no right to it, I often steal a kiss of it.

— Emily Dickinson c. 1871
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

— Robert Frost 1959
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I am a victim of my own moods. I am a slave to them.

— Sylvia Plath 1950
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I was surprised, as always, by the sight of my own face in the mirror. I had a funny feeling it was somebody else.

— Jack Kerouac 1958
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I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm doing it with all my heart.

— Allen Ginsberg Undetermined
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I am not a fan of the human race.

— William S. Burroughs Undetermined
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No, I don't use drugs. I am drugs.

— Hunter S. Thompson 1977
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I don't know what it is about you, but you make me want to be a better man.

— Kurt Vonnegut 1963
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