Quotes About Identity

Bit mig då, tänkte jag; jag är en sån som man biter.

Anonymity prods people to do things they wouldn't do in plain sight. The internet provides that. You can be whomever your picture says you are.

People look at the outside of a person and assume they know everything there is to know about the inside of that person. The trouble is a few coats of paint and some new shutters can do a lot for the exterior of a house, but tell you nothing about its foundation or its ability to weather life's storms. I would say the same is true of people.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are." ?Richard Paul Evans

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anaïs Nin

And what if this place I'm running to has become every bit as random and merciless as the city I just left? The place where I've spent the past twenty years of my life working toward something I truly thought I would eventually reach, only to realize I had been there all along. And never recognized it. Never valued it.

It doesn't matter if anyone else ever sees my pictures or not. They are for me, part of who I am and how I express my interpretation of what I see in this world.

But when you get to where I am in life, you realize that we are who we end up being because of each and every experience we've had. To pull one would unravel the entire masterpiece." I

who I am, somehow that failed to be significant, at least in any way that matters.

Along with the other losses I've grieved in the past three years, I feel a deep pang of mourning for the death of the woman I used to be.

Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts; it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why?

I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.

I would have been happier if I'd been anonymous.

they said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst

I only exist here as a formality. — Ingmar Bergman, from the screenplay The Passion of Anna (1969)

Mes vaidiname daug vaidmen?. Kai kuriuos šiaip, d?l smagumo, kitus d?l to, kad kitiems taip norisi. O dažniausiai - kad apgintume save.

Beyond my fear I felt the need to defend my identity, to not let them turn me into a thing or a number.

Theo's words had seeped into her and calmed her immediately. The 'we' had been an epiphany, revealing to her a new identity founded on the strength of love. It existed both inside her and outside, through Theo. Never again would there be emptiness. Mama Fina had been right: there was magic in words. The 'we' had eclipsed her fear.

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it's nothing but vanity, human vanity.

Since all men are created equal, I have to thank God I was born a woman.

Sono una prostituta, è vero, però non mi vendo a tutti.

[I] asked people to quantify themselves on a scale of one to 100 percent gay, and I watched so many existential crises unfold in front of me. People didn't know what to do, because they had never been presented with the option before.

e che altro infatti son mai le anime nostre se non memoria, affetto, pensiero e speranza?