Identity Quotes

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world becaus...

You want to find out a mode of renunciation that will be an escape from pain. I tell you again, ther...

Let a prejudice be bequeathed, carried in the air, adopted by hearsay, caught in through the eye,–ho...

Who can give a man this, his own name?

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; f...

England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past, and, l...

An illusion can become a half-truth, a mask can alter the expression of a face.

Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never b...

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish....

At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember y...

Lose your face: become capable of loving without remembering, without phantasm and without interpret...

We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppre...

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity,...

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon th...

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s posses...

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of ide

Originality must compound with inheritance.

Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human.

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remai...

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition ...

Sometimes I just get tired. I get headaches, and I just lose track. I mean, it's like which is me an...

My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, bu...

The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a s...

the mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a s...

Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited ...

No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive syst...

Were the stars out when I left the house last evening? All I could remember was the couple in the Sk...

I feel very strongly that all Japanese at that time had the idea drilled into them of 1999 being the...

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main way...

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almsho...

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and conveni...

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some ve...

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of l...

I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; yo...

In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous...

She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.

Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say...

I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciat...

I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton-...

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of tho...

It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not e...

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of ...

Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver...History is a collection of found objects washed up through ...

I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.

She had generated alternative versions of herself. She had insisted at brutal cost on these conversi...

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and...

But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out ...

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betr...

I had only some dim and unformed sense, a sense which struck me now and then, and which I could not ...

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get somethin...

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages...

Unhappily, things get clearer as we go along. I perceive that I have no body. What's less, I've been...

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of he...

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation kno...

She breathes all the political gases that flow around this, but she never seems to inhale them.

What do you call the Hrothgar-wrecker when Hrothgar has been wrecked?

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t e...

Jesus, why would he hook up with Becca?" "Well, she's not known for her personality or generosity of...

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a u...

A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was him...

He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

He tried to shape in his mind what he had to say to McDonald. It was a feeling; it was an urge that ...

It had not occurred to him how he must appear to an outsider, to the world. For a moment he saw hims...

A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been t...

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance ...

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that ...

By now it was too late to call St. Jude. He chose an out-of-the-way patch of airport carpeting and l...

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up bein...

I do not know which of us has written this page.

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--o...

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritatin...

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most...

The theme of invisibility has haunted me for many years, since earliest girlhood. A woman often feel...

Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch...

We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly ...

Memory is identity. I have believed this since – oh, since I can remember. You are what you have don...

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give ...

How would I know which one I was?

And keep in mind that the you that makes life worthy of living today won’t be the same you that make...

The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering a...

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people...

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

People are not two-thirds one thing and the remainder something else. Temperament, personality, or o...

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't eve...

and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as...

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I...

When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M...

At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave i...

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, pu...

Questions about her feelings, about what has been or might be going on in her soul are non of my bus...