Self-Deprecating Sayings
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You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me.
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!
There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'
Someone who says 'I am busy' is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.
I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.
You are not I. How do you know I don't know the happiness of fish?
I am sick when I do look on thee.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much more of it.
I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
I have a writing room. Actually, it's a one-room studio. There's even a couch. And if you think that's pretentious, go fuck yourself.