Quotes About Identity

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.

So in the Christian there are many graces, but one new creature.

As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.

So it's true: Being without Being is blue.

I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are, and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the world.

Wills aren't really strong or weak; it is the characters that they express and serve that are.

Lost in the corn rows, I remember feeling just another stalk, and thus this country takes me over in the way I occupy myself when I am well . . . completely - to the edge of both my house and body. No one notices, when they walk by, that I am brimming in the doorways.

Because if we were each as identical as twins, I would scratch your face to say the scratch set you apart and made you more interesting, and gave you a purpose in life: to scratch me back a thousand times.

I Think, Therefore, You Are

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

we are forever getting confused into thinking that scripture is mainly about what we are supposed to do rather than a picture of who God is.

To be a Christian means gradually, Sunday after Sunday, to be subsumed into another story, a different account of where we have come from and where we are going, a story that is called "gospel." You are properly called a "Christian" when it's obvious that the story told in Scripture is your story, above all other stories that the world tries to impose on you, and that the God who is rendered in Scripture is the God who has got you.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Hamlet is a name: his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman is this: The one thinks everything right that is French, while the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

No matter how cleverly you sneak up on a mirror your reflection always looks you straight in the eye.

Nomole is just a mole

OK, so I'm not famous for the right reasons.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.