Quotes About Identity

Comme si pendant le temps de notre vie, et moins encore, la France était en train de changer de peuple : on en voit un, on fait la sieste, c'en est un autre, ou plusieurs autres, et qui paraissent appartenir à d'autres rivages, à d'autres ciels, d'autres architectures, d'autres mœurs — c'est ce qu'ils semblent penser eux aussi.

America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.

She is afraid, and yet she wants the priest to see inside her and accept the monsters that wrap around the secret, pure part of her--the part she managed to save, miraculously, that so many of us have lost. she knows the monsters are there and yet wants to be seen.

Deep in her secret heart, in the pure place she protects, she is afraid she will always be alone—that she will go through life without being known. And she will not survive that.

it will be okay. Go to the priest and ask him. Ask him, Will you know me? See what he says.

Now when those dark times happen, I curl into a ball on my cot and make a cape with my blanket. I remind myself I am not dust, but I should be. I tell myself I am made of the same cells as life itself even if I am a mistake.

I think; therefore I am.

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

It is a terrible thing To be so open: it is as if my heart Put on a face and walked into the world. —SYLVIA PLATH, "A POEM FOR THREE VOICES

The first thing I did when I made a little bit of money as a singer was to buy myself an amber necklace. This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.

Reality is not static—its properties are in constant flux, so perhaps we are as much in the world as we can ever be, and that's the problem.

Just as Diana Prince is never around when Wonder Woman shows up, Venus is either a Morning Star or an Evening Star, never both simultaneously.

God has a name. This points to a key difference between persons and things. God is not a nameless energy or abstract idea. — Thomas Oden

Padre Pio once said when recalling his childhood. "I was an unsalted piece of macaroni

Oh yeah, 'coming out may be more of a process than an event.

are now, but it's your roots, and roots determine how you sprout.

Often we are so intent on being our mate's everything that nothing else matters until, one day, we wake up and realize we no longer know our own purpose.

As sure as my name is Archie and not Archibald, I would have shot that goddamn orangutan dead in his tracks.

I gathered that with the men the consensus was that women were okay in their place, which I guess was the way cavemen felt about it, and all their male descendants. The question was, and still is, what's their place?

To anyone seeing him but not knowing him, Saul Panzer was nothing but a little guy with a big nose who never quite caught up with his shaving.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men.

What are you, a scientist, or an artist?" Wolfe was frowning at him. "If you please, Mr. Jarrett, no labels. Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

She gave me a little smile, the dimples coming, and said, 'We don't really know ourselves, do we?' 'It depends,' I said. 'Some of us know too much, and some not enough.

Or had it been just a nightmare? I clambered to my feet and went to a mirror to look, and there was a livid ring around my neck.