Quotes About Identity

I came out alone on my way to my tryst. But who is this that follows me in the silent dark? I move aside to avoid his presence but I escape him not. He makes the dust rise from the earth with his swagger; he adds his loud voice to every word that I utter. He is my own little self, my lord, he knows no shame; but I am ashamed to come to thy door in his company.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for its entrance?

He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow. I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being.

India is there to unite all human races. Because of that reason in India we have not been given the unity of races.

the Creator will find it difficult to recognize it as a thing of spirit and a creature made in His own divine image.

He whom I enclose with my name is weeping in this dungeon. I am ever busy building this wall all around; and as this wall goes up into the sky day by day I lose sight of my true being in its dark shadow. I take pride in this great wall, and I plaster it with dust and sand lest a least hole should be left in this name; and for all the care I take I lose sight of my true being. XXX

No king or emperor in the world had the power to keep captive this nonentity

Nation is the greatest evil for the Nation

This abstract being, the Nation, is ruling India.

The moment you clasp an infant to your heart, you realize that nobody is born into a caste.

those who cannot find food for their enthusiasm in a knowledge of their country as it actually is, or those who cannot love men just because they are men—who needs must shout and deify their country in order to keep up their excitement—these love excitement more than their country. To

WE, the rustling leaves, have a voice that answers the storms, but who are you so silent?" "I am a mere flower.

They who from birth have had no other

There is a real Bharatvarsha—a complete India. Unless we establish ourselves there, we can't absorb its true living essence into our minds and hearts. Therefore I say, forgetting all else, discarding book-learning, the lure of prestige, and the temptation of odd profits, we must set sail for that very port, whether we drown or perish. No wonder I can never forget the true, complete image of Bharatvarsha.

Merging with that mass of humanity, he wanted to surrender to the vast current of national life, and to feel the nation's turbulent pulse within his own heart.

No puedo hallar descanso; soy un extraño para mi propio corazón.

Lo que eres no lo ves, y lo que ves es tu sombra

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?" "The outside world may want you," he replied.

the personal man is eliminated to a phantom, everything becomes a revolution of policy

And the idea of the Nation is one of the most powerful anæsthetics that man has invented.

Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all.

It is because we have not learned to regard men and women normally, in their own proper places, that we have conjured up a cluster of poetic notions about them.