Quotes About Identity

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort Of being strangers, at least to ourselves.

be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment," said Emerson

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment

the trick to doing almost anything difficult was to act like someone else, someone who belonged.

Pino shrugged. "Maybe he liked the sound of it. Pino Lella." Mimo snorted. "You do live in a fantasy world." They

They want us down to nothing, Emil, people with no pasts!" Emil held his wife as she trembled and shook, feeling as helpless as she did.

They kill people, and I'm a people.

stitched cowboy boots. He grew his hair out. He had his bangs cut straight,

He said he was both Muslim and Taoist.

One of the things that (we) religious people often do is try to change ourselves into what we think God or the Church wants us to be like.

was mentally creating a God in the image and likeness of humans.

He said he was concerned about what could still happen to me. I could still be vilified and seen as dangerous, therefore losing me the last remaining bit of respectability I have with the Christian world. I said that after everything I'd been through for the sake of integrity, how could I allow fears like that to control me?

I am made of pieces and of the spaces between them where other pieces used to be. I am a landscape of loss. Most of me is the memory of where else, and who else, and with whom, I have been and no longer am.

You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied, one time or another.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.

The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.

Nothing stays not even change, That can grow tired of it's own name; The very thought too much for it. Somewhere in air a stillness is, So far, so thin- But let it alone. Whoever we are it is not for us

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.