Por todos los senderos de la noche han venido a llorar en mi lecho. ‚Fueron tantos, son tantos! Yo no se¤   cua¤  les viven, yo no se¤   cua¤  l ha muerto. Me llorare¤   a m |¤ misma para llorarlos todos. They have come from all of night's pathways to cry in my bed. They were so many, they are so many! I don't know who lives, I don't know who has died. I'll cry for myself so that I can cry for all.

-Agustini, Delmira
  El rosario de Eros,'Mis amores' ('My lovers').

Je me cherche a'   travers les sie'  cles et je ne me vois nulle part. I have searched for myself across time and have not found myself anywhere.

-Cixous, He¤  le'  ne
  Pre¤  noms du soleil (translated by Morag Shiach in He¤  le' n e Cixous:  A Politics of Writing).

Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada d|¤a, cuando termina el suen‹  o, all |¤ , donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas. Tired, above all, of being always with myself, of finding myself everyday, when the dream comes to an end, wherever I am, with the same old nose and with the same old legs.

-Girondo, Oliverio
  Persuasio¤  n de los d|¤  as,'Cansancio' ('Fatigue').

What's thegood of a lie if it's seen through? When Itell a lie no-one can tell it from the gospel truth. Sometimes I can't even tell it myself.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
   The Captain. The Captain and the Enemy, pt.1, ch.1.

I do not like subversion or disloyalty in any form and if I had ever seen any I would have considered it my duty to have reported it to the proper authorities.But to hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is to me inhuman and indecent and dishonorable.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
  Letter to  John S  Wood,19 May, on being asked to give information for the McCarthy trials. Collected in US Congress Committee Hearing on Un- American  Activities (1952), pt.8.

And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.18.

Vous me manquez, je suis absente de moi-me"  me. I miss you, I am estranged from myself.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Hernani, act1, sc.2.

   For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception orother, of heat orcold, light or shade, pain or pleasure.I nevercan catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

-Hume, David
  A  Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.4, section 6.

Ich habe also demnach keine Erkenntnis von mir, wie ich bin, sondern bloÞ, wie ich mir selbst erscheine. Das Bewusstsein seiner selbst ist also noch lange nicht eine Erkenntnis seiner selbst. I have no knowledge of myself as I am but merely as I appear to myself. The consciousness of myself is thus very far from being a knowledge of the self.

-Kant, Immanuel
Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Critique of Pure Reason), B158 (translated by N Kemp Smith).

I am not going to thank anybodyöbecause I did it all myself.

-Milligan, Spike
   Acceptance speech after being awarded the British Comedy Award for Lifetime  Achievement.

My best friend is myself† It's a lifelong relationship and divorce will never come into it.

-Morrissey full name Steven Patrick Morrissey
  In the Observer,15 Sep. US    inventor    and    painter,    who    demonstrated    (1844)    the practicability of an electrical telegraph device to Congress. He had earlier trained as an artist.

There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between usöhard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  The consciousness of Antoinette Mason/Bertha Rochester at a point of intersection with the text of Jane Eyre. Wide Sargasso Sea, pt.3.

Ihave oftenwished Ihad timeto cultivatemodesty† But I am too busy thinking about myself.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  In the Observer, 30 Apr.