Quotes About Identity

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

You've got the makings of a first-class dwarf!

A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?

Even now I'm nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories.

Maybe I'm afraid that if I could do otherwise I would gradually cease to be a human being, and would soon be creeping about, dirty and stinking, emitting incomprehensible noises. Not that I'm afraid of becoming an animal. That wouldn't be too bad, but a human being can never become just an animal; he plunges beyond, into the abyss.

Wenn ich heute an die Frau denke, die ich einmal war, die Frau mit dem kleinen Doppelkinn, die sich sehr bemühte, jünger auszusehen, als sie war, empfinde ich wenig Sympathie für sie. Ich möchte aber nicht zu hart über sie urteilen. Sie hatte ja nie eine Möglichkeit, ihr Leben bewußt zu gestalten.

Déjà, je ne suis plus qu'une fine pellicule recouvrant un amoncellement de souvenirs. Je n'en peux plus. Qu'adviendra-t-il de mois si cette peau venait à se rompre ?

Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund

Some say it rings by its own will, that if one arrives in Venice to its great, noble clanging, it is proof of one's Venetian soul, proof the old bell remembers one from some other time.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

They're looking for meaning as if it were a Thing. As if it were a Girl, required to take her panty off, as if she would want to do so as soon as the true interpreter comes along. As if there were something to take off.

T-shirt that read I'M A GLEEK.

Did it slip your mind that you turn furry and howl at the moon once a month?

Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who report histories of childhood trauma characteristically describe themes of ongoing inner struggle regarding their identity; of inner battles for survival; or other images of anger, conflict, and violence. P13

Derealization—A feeling that one's surroundings are strange or unreal. Often involves previously familiar people.

Depersonalization—Detachment from one's self, e.g., a sense of looking at one's self as if one is an outsider.

Identity Alteration—Objective behavior indicating the assumption of different identities, much more distinct than different roles.

Identity Confusion in Patients With DID We can locate the identity confusion characteristic of DID in the middle-to-upper range of severity. Identity confusion is a significant factor in DID, when an environment created and sustained by one personality conflicts with the expectations of another personality who is not prepared to function in this alternate environment.

People with DID often experience conflicting advice or opinions emanating from their alter personalities. Individual alter personalities may have coherent, consistent identities, but, taken as a group, the incompatible internal personalities generate an atmosphere of conflict as well as incoherence. As one patient described it, "Do you know how hard it is to get a hundred and four minds to come together to a single decision?

did i think i was god that i had to lie and take it did i think then i was a mountain or a hill or a ridge and who told me that and who decided stones had no rights for stones can waste away from being denied from being abused and who decided who is the ploughed and who ploughs and why did i not get up and why not go away and what would have happened if i had resisted..

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.