Quotes About Identity

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

I alone was a dream, a figment which had never really touched anything. I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.

I thought the issue was settled until at the end he said, 'Listen, pal, if I can't play sports, you're going to play them for me,' and I lost part of myself to him, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I had not been able to identify its presence.

My aid alone had never seemed to him in the category of help. The reason for this occurred to me as the procession moved slowly across the brilliant foyer to the doors; Phineas had thought of me as an extension of himself.

Sentivo che non ero, non ero mai stato e non sarei mai stato una parte vivente di questo mondo straordinariamente solido e profondamente significativo che mi circonda.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

I've never really been wanted.

They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it? 'I am the carpenter….

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

Only by trying on other people's clothes do we find what size we are.

We make her paint her face and dance If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it's happening.

People think you want them to do something or say something special...you don't. You just want them to be themselves, so you can be yourself.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh my love

I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!