Quotes About Identity

If you're going to make something up about yourself, make it good

I prefer to die of thirst in my own planet than to be a character more in this sad story.

Ones Turd smells the same be of Servant or Prince (English Translation)

Se mataban, entonces, entre ellos, estos señores, para probarse que eran caballeros argentinos y hombres de honor, con lo cual los caballeros argentinos y los hombres de honor disminuían.

Tipo increíble, dijo Renzi. Personaje local, le digo, como todos acá. Eso es lo que tiene de bueno vivir en un pueblo: todos somos personajes importantes.

Así somos él y yo, tal vez le sirva, le digo a Renzi, tipos sin arraigo, gente anacrónica, los últimos sobrevivientes de una estirpe en disolución.

No matter how long he lived in the South, Zemurray could never rise above street Spanish overlaid by his American accent, overlaid by his Russian accent. He was all overlay—identity stacked on identity, life stacked on

No matter how long he lived in the South, Zemurray could never rise above street Spanish overlaid by his American accent, overlaid by his Russian accent. He was all overlay—identity stacked on identity, life stacked on life.

Vincet amor patriae. (Vergil Aen. 6.823.)

Vestis virum facit.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?

And, Freedom, was I free?

Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.

Why, Jon, why? his mother asked. Why is it so hard to be like the rest of the flock, Jon? Why can't you leave low flying to the pelicans, the alhatross? Why don't you eat? Son, you're bone and feathers! I don't mind being bone and feathers mom. I just want to know what I can do in the air and what I can't, that's all. I just want to know.

A moment later Jonathan's body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. "Don't let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I'm a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…

The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.

You gave your life to become the person you are right now Was it worth it?

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in awhile and watch your answers change.

Le paradis, c'est simplement d'être soi-même parfait.

You've sacrificed your entire life to be who you are today. Was it worth it?

If you bind too strongly to things and people, when they disappear, it will not go maybe even a part of ourselves?

Éste es el precio que se paga por ser el incomprendido; te llaman demonio o te llaman dios.

You gave your life to become you are right now. Was it worth it?