Quotes About Selfhood

I'd rather people just call me by my name, Andy, than 'Red Rifle.'

I am no one's role model.

Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida Kahlo.

When it's harder to live, is life more absolute? On my mute senses evening shores, also mute is the old reason defining my selfhood: it is an inner path a silent underwood where all is nature. Toilsome labor of obscure existence, you alone are necessary... And gently you drive me beyond human boundaries

I think it's important to be yourself and not try and emulate someone else's look.

He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

I'm not a rude boy; I'm my own thing.

It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display.

Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something in itself, something that makes one think, not of any complement and limit, but only of life and existence: the feminine human being. - Rilke

I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.

As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.

It was of no importance. Birth did not matter; heredity was merely a hurdle; one was what one made of oneself; that and no other.

I refuse to have my character improved.

I am not answerable to what happens with my personal life.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

You can't say I don't sound like a N.Y. rapper - it's because I don't wanna sound like nobody else.

Everyone kinda knows me as David and Victoria Beckham's son, and it doesn't, like, annoy me; I just kinda wanna make my own name for myself.

A cat only has itself.

I don't like being put into a category.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

No man should have another man's voice in his head.

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.