Quotes About Identity

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet

Discordantly—out of the mists—he heard her voice: "Dead faces," she said whitely, "they're all the same. . . . They don't, I mean, tell of the person as they were alive.

This is exactly who I was meant to be.

T'u-küelerin devletinde bayrak, alt?ndan bir kurt ba??yla süslüdür; bu sadece bir figür olmaktan ziyade, ?üphesiz alt?nla kaplanm?? gerçek bir kafatas?d?r. Hükümdar?n kap?s?n?n giri?ine yere dikilir ve yürüyen ordunun önünde ta??n?r. Bundaki amaç, yaln?zca toplanmak de?il, ayn? zamanda efsanede oldu?u gibi Kurdun halk?na liderlik etmesidir.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop-room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

questa tensione fra il vagabondare, l'errare, l'essere sempre di passaggio in ogni luogo, continuamente in cammino, eternamente viaggiatore, e poi il fatto di desiderare una casa propria, in cui sentirsi al suo posto, finalmente stabile, dove essere qualcosa di più che accettato: scelto.

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)

I don't know if I'm a national education figure.

I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart & soul.

Anger is the only emotion many men allow themselves to express. Growing up, we are taught to avoid anything that is seen as the least bit feminine. We are taught that men 'do' while women 'feel.' We learn to keep all emotions under wraps, to see them as unmanly. We cannot show we are hurt, afraid, worried, or panicked. The feeling we are allowed to express without being called feminine is anger. When men experience IMS, anger is often the primary emotion.

Only themselves understand themselves, and the like of themselves, As Souls only understand Souls.   Walt Whitman

Who we think we are can be stripped away forever," I make a poof gesture, "just like that. Right now, well fed, unthreatened, we have the luxury of pretending the Donners and the Nazis and the gang-bangers are someone else, but they're not. They're us; a veil's breadth away. There are no good guys and bad guys. People are people, all the same; only the circumstances change.

What do you know? The answer is: I Am.

I want to stop not knowing who and what and where I am. I want to stop being confused and unclear. I want to stop pretending lies are true and that I understand things when I don't. I want to stop playing make-believe and find out what's real.

Ask yourself. Who am I? If you do it, you will become enlightened. There is no possible alternative. The only way self-inquiry can fail to work is if you fail to do it.