Quotes About Identity

For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you'll see in your arms is yourself.

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

Myths and legends die hard in America.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

Fear is the fear of one's self.

If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.