Quotes About Identity

I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

To wcale nie jest proste. Nie wystarczy zwyk?e sprz?tanie. Resztki zostawionej tu osobowo?ci poprzedniego go?cia trzeba zwalczy? swoj? bezosobowo?ci?. Po to jest Przemiana. Resztki odbi? tamtej twarzy w lustrze nie tylko musz? zetrze? szmatk?, ale tak?e zape?ni? lustro moj? bia?o-ró?ow? beztwarzowo?ci?. Tamten zapach zostawiony przez roztargnienie i po?piech musz? zag?uszy? moim bezzapachem.

For it is God's business to create, and people's business to name.

all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it is automatic. Not only invisible to men, but also women, who no longer treat her as competition. It is a new and surprising sensation, how people's eyes just sort of float right over her face. They look straight through her, no doubt looking past her at ads and landscapes and schedules.

He also gave her the name of his illness, but in Polish, so she had no idea what it was, because she just didn't know the Polish name for it. "Do you remember our promise?" he wrote.

For it is only in other people's gaze that we see ourselves, isn't it?

But how could he have, when women themselves had suddenly gone insane, were rejecting the direction, the protection, that their menfolk offered them, were recklessly plunging off on their own into unknown and unspeakable depths?

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home.

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

At 11, I could say 'I am sodium' (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Music is part of being human.

To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must "recollect" ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

You transcend your own self through acting out someone else's life.

We helped plow the fields, build the dams, write the poems and sing the music of America. Are not all Americans proud, of Doree Miller, of Frederick Douglass, of Paul Robeson, of Joe Louis, of Marian Anderson

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.