not oneself

Idioms and Phrases

Not feeling physically or mentally well, as in I think there's something wrong; he's not himself , or She seemed to be improving last week, but she's just not feeling herself today . Also see feel like oneself .

Example Sentences

She said this “new” ethic should be based on Thomas Aquinas’s definition of love: willing the good of the other for the sake of that person and not oneself.

From Washington Post

They seem not to care, or understand, that the masks are worn primarily to protect others, not oneself.

From Washington Post

Provided of course that it affects other people and not oneself.

From New York Times

To write a novel, Murdoch continues, is to quickly discover that “however much one is in the ordinary sense ‘interested in other people’, this interest has left one far short of possessing the knowledge required to create a real character who is not oneself.

From The Guardian

It is not oneself but something in the universe that one’s left with.

From The New Yorker