Quotes About Identity

If God wanted me to be someone I was not, then I would not be the person I am today.

For most men life is a search for the proper manilla envelope in which to get themselves filed.

We are all alike, on the inside.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

I love being a girl because we can act like guys without looking homo.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

No one can live without the decisions of their own it seems. So they look to someone else to tell them what to be, tell them what to wear, tell them what to say.

In this day and age, some turn 18 and think they're a man or a woman and that's it, but that's just not true. You have to establish your manhood or your womanhood with actions.

Hark to the whimper of the seagull. / He weeps because he's not an ea-gull. / Suppose you were, you silly seagull. / Could you explain it to your she-gull?

Your biggest fantasy is walking away from the life (they think) you lead.

The greatest work of art created first by god and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole process is an amazing art in itself. The fact that it takes two artists, man and woman, each bringing their own parts of a pallet to create a work of art that not only has a piece of both artists but is also a living, breathing, ever-changing, piece of art with an identity of its own.

There's a balance in my life, there's reality and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

People dont want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path....This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

I've got more than one membership to more than one club and I owe my life to the people that I love.

Penguins mate for life. That doesn't surprise me much because they all look alike. It's not like they're going to meet a really new, great looking penguin someday.

Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.