Quotes About Identity

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

Sentimentul de a fi tot si evidenta de a nu fi nimic.

all that we know, that is, all we have the power to do, has finally turned against what we are.

Quem é mais estranho a si do que aquele que se sente a ver o que vê?

There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.

It would take a while before the postmodern Narcissus perceived the ruins of society behind the emptiness of his mirror.

Zelfkennis en zelfzorg. Knellende schoenen geven blaren, wandelen wordt hinken, hinken wordt strompelen. Wil ik opnieuw stevig in mijn schoenen staan, dan moet ik mijn voeten serieus nemen. Waarom heb ik blaren, hoe krijg ik die weg? Welk schoeisel past er bij mijn voeten? Welke schoenen wil ik voor welke gelegenheid? Koop ik schoenen voor mijn voeten of voor de ogen van de buitenwereld? Of voor de ogen van één iemand in de buitenwereld?

group identity essentially means rules, and therefore security. Every group is concerned with regulating jouissance

It could be that you have the wrong hands, or the wrong face. It is not your imagination. You do. You have. It is emerging as the condition of our age. Every day there are new ways of being wrong. Explosions are common, but that is not it. We are waking up to it. We are opening our wrong eyes.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it

We know who we are when we know the concerns for which we are willing to sacrifice.

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

The gentry protect their names like hymens, They suck their names like thumbs, But they sign their names and something happens. While Zimmer, I can write, Zimmer, All day, and nothing happens.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten who you are.

She wanted Mark to come back and to smell him and feel him and she wanted to tell him that they still beg for it from her, they still want her and what do you think about that Mark? I'm yours and I'm the slut of all sluts. She wanted to say, Markie you haven't taken it away from me I still have it. I still have what it takes. She thought, I could show you my insides, I could turn myself inside out for you, me, me, who everybody wants, me, who can swallow the whole world.

I've left Bethlehem and I feel free... I've left the girl I was supposed to be and some day I'll be born.

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

I is what I is.

The truth about people had not much to do with what they said about themselves, or what others said about them.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

She was thinking of the advantages she would have if only she were someone else.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. —Oscar Wilde (1891)