Quotes About Identity

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make be proud to be an American.

Love helps us develop an identity secure enough to allow itself to be placed in another's care and protection.

Make no mistake. I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your casual gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged waves of identity and being. There are no amateurs in the world of children.

Their true lives lie below, even now beginning to reassemble themselves, calling this very flesh out of the air, in mail waiting to be opened, in telephones ringing and paper work on office desks, in the chance utterance of a name.

We're not here to capture an image. We're here to maintain one. Every photograph reinforces the aura.

Baba, I am the one in this family who is obsessed by death. I have always been the one.

I moonlight except that there's nothing I'm moonlighting from. Moonlight is all that's out there.

My name is Viverrine Gentian. Who are you?" "You said you knew." "And so I do," she said. "I was simply wondering if we agreed." "What's that book?" "It's a story called Somnium. A beautiful and extremely rare book. Written in Latin with a smidgen of Hebrew and Greek.

You've said good-by to everyone but yourself. How does a person say good-bye to himself? It's a juicy existential dilemma.

We are the sum total of our data, I told her, just as we are the sum total of our chemical impulses. I

She walked into the room and went to the window. She opened it. She threw the window open. She didn't know why she did this. Then she knew. She wanted to feel the sea tang on her face and the flow of time in her body, to tell her who she was.

I take these children seriously. It is not possible to see too much in them, to overindulge your casual gift for the study of character. It is all there, in full force, charged waves of identity and being. There are no amateurs in the world of children.

Nie mam cia?a. Jestem umys?em, ?wiadomo?ci?, samotny w wielkiej przestrzeni.

It must be deeply satisfying for you. The college is internationally known as a result of Hitler studies. It has an identity, a sense of achievement. You've evolved an entire system around this figure, a structure with countless substructures and interrelated fields of study, a history within history. I marvel at the effort. It was masterful, shrewd and stunningly preemptive. It's what I want to do with Elvis.

look in the mirror and I don't know who I'm looking at," he said. "The face looking back at me doesn't seem to be mine. But then again why should it? Is the mirror a truly reflective surface? And is this the face that other people see? Or is it something or someone that I invent? Does the medication I'm taking release this second self?

If serious reading dwindles to near nothingness, it will probably mean that the thing we're talking about when we use the word "identity" has reached an end.

Right. We all fear death to some extent. Those who claim otherwise are lying to themselves. Shallow people." "People with their nicknames on their license plates.

She called me Tuck, which is what her mother used to call her father. All the male Browners were called Tuck. When the line began to pale, producing a series of aesthetes and incompetents, they gave the name to any man who married into the family, within reason.

What the hell does the Jewish Museum know about Guatemalan pricks? This particular prick isn't even circumcised.

He picks up speed and seems to lose his gangliness, the slouchy funk of hormones and unbelonging and all the stammering things that seal his adolescence. He is just a running boy, a half-seen figure from the streets, but the way running reveals some clue to being, the way a runner bares himself to consciousness, this is how the dark-skinned kid seems to open to the world, how the bloodrush of a dozen strides bring him into eloquence.

he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked out for him...

Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

He was half-white and half-Korean, but when asked about his ethnicity, he always said Hawaiian, a declaration of racial neutrality that, more often than not, let him avoid further inquest.

Nikada ne možete biti ono što niste. Možete biti samo ono što jeste i to je sve. A upravo ste ovoga trenutka ono što jeste i to bez ikakva napora.