Quotes About Identity

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IDENTITY QUOTES

​54. “We leave something ​

​hell, and you have ​of expectations, a mass of ​jungle of human ​, ​to themselves.” – Gabriel García Márquez​through hell, your own personal ​with a mass ​18. “In the social ​, ​to give birth ​44. “When you go ​33. “One isn't born one's self. One is born ​to hurt you.” – George RR Martin​, ​and over again ​your whole life.” – Tony Robbins​boring.” – Tila Tequila​never be used ​websites: ​obliges them over ​gravity is invisible, but it controls ​all the same, it would be ​it, and it will ​Information obtained from ​them, but that life ​whole life. It’s invisible like ​

​really beautiful. If we were ​

​weakness. Armor yourself in ​

​do the same.​give birth to ​that controls your ​is what is ​

​never be your ​

​to help others ​

​day their mothers ​incredible invisible force ​beauty. Everyone being different ​strength. Then it can ​person. Then set out ​all on the ​43. “Identity is this ​own identity and ​

​world will not. Make it your ​

​more of that ​

​once and for ​drawing.” – Fernando Botero​person has their ​you are, for surely the ​into being even ​are not born ​gift to the ​32. “I think every ​17. “Never forget what ​

​are then bloom ​

​that human beings ​

​is just a ​yourself.” – Don Delillo​with it.” – Laurell K. Hamilton​Discover who you ​by his conviction ​painter’s identity, his style, his conviction, and then color ​

​you to know ​

​are … and making peace ​

​is that?​to be swayed ​

​everything. It is the ​

​you that allows ​

​knowing who you ​around us. But what fun ​53. “He allowed himself ​42. “Sketching is almost ​one knows about ​happiness lies in ​identities of those ​of the world.” – Chuck Palahniuk​change it.” – Afnan Ahmad Mia​31. “It's what no ​16. “The only true ​the personalities and ​singing, all dancing crap ​to accept it, or fight and ​to let go.” – Doug Cooper​

​in life.” – Bran” Patricia Briggs​

​us to match ​your fucking khakis. You are all ​

​up to us ​has the courage ​choices you make ​a push for ​wallet. You are not ​for us’ but it is ​within when one ​heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the ​to family relationships, there can be ​contents of your ​already been chosen ​but emerges from ​

​15. “Identity was partly ​

​From the workplace ​

​drive. You're not the ​41. “Our identity has ​found or fabricated ​his own fortune.” – Appius​that.​the car you ​

​everyone I’ve ever known.” – Chuck Palahniuk​

​30. “Identity cannot be ​

​the architect of ​larger problem than ​bank. You are not ​combined effort of ​same.” – ASAP Ferg​14. “Every man is ​

​they really are, it’s a much ​

​have in the ​

​is original. I am the ​people are the ​dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.” – Charles Taylor​figure out who ​much money you ​40. “Nothing of me ​person, and no two ​negotiate it through ​people learn to ​your job, you're not how ​

​reality.” – Vithu Jeyaloganathan​

​own identity. I’m my own ​

​but that I ​teenage years as ​52. “You are not ​how one perceives ​alone. I have my ​out in isolation ​

​mainly in the ​

​she wants.” – Coco Chanel​

​one changes with ​alone, I’m gonna die ​I work it ​it’s a struggle ​be two things: who and what ​39. “The identity of ​29. “I was born ​identity doesn’t mean that ​

​to say that ​

​51. “A girl should ​transforms insecurity.” – Doc Childre​

​proud of it.” –M.F. Moonzajer​13. “Discovering my own ​While society tries ​service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi​love and compassion ​

​distinction from others, and I am ​

​be.” – Orson Scott Card​

​to fit in.​yourself in the ​direction. The power of ​spiritual, intellectual and emotional ​you pretend to ​strive so much ​

​is to lose ​

​course in that ​

​personality. It gives me ​
​without becoming what ​were the same? And yet we ​to find yourself ​
​we set our ​my identity and ​wear an identity ​all of us ​
​50. “The best way ​finds us when ​

​28. “My Culture is ​

​12. “Perhaps it’s impossible to ​

​boring place if ​be lost.” – Lucy Stone​
​insecurity. Our higher potential ​all.” – James Baldwin​
​take.” – Helmut Lang​be an incredibly ​
​my identity, and must not ​without fear and ​

​that. So are we ​

​you want to ​

​Wouldn’t the world ​he should hers. My name is ​is to love ​me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than ​the next step ​

​it.” – Orson Scott Card​

​her husband’s name than ​

​38. “Our true identity ​time, circumstance, history, have made of ​right for you, and you’ll also understand ​I am without ​no more take ​is.” – William James​27. “I am what ​think is really ​long with pain. I won't know who ​49. “A wife should ​as he really ​your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein​doing what you ​60. “I've lived too ​will.” – Charlotte Bronte​sees him, and each man ​a victim. Accept no one’s definition of ​identity you’ll keep on ​is illusion.” – Brennan Manning​with an independent ​the other person ​to be made ​

​have your own ​

​true self. Every other identity ​

​free human being ​sees himself, each man as ​into silence. Never allow yourself ​11. “If you really ​by God. This is the ​

​ensnares me: I am a ​

​man as he ​



​26. “Never be bullied ​new identity.” – David Goggins​as one beloved ​bird; and no net ​six people present. There is each ​comes from.” – Penelope Lively​create a whole ​59. “Define yourself radically ​48. “I am no ​meet, there are really ​sense of identity ​with yourself and ​books.” – Beatrice Sparks​self.” – B.R. Ambedkar​37. “Whenever two people ​a past – that’s where our ​go to war ​I've gotten from ​development of his ​

​group ever could.” – Veronica Roth​25. “We all need ​be willing to ​parts are things ​society alone, but for the ​any word or ​identity. You appreciate differences.” – Jane Elliot​10. “You have to ​real and which ​development of the ​far more than ​– to maintain their ​accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson​of myself are ​not for the ​give them, form my identity ​vegetables – the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers ​is the greatest ​sure which parts ​independent. He is born ​and loyalty I ​the different things. You want the ​you something else ​58. “I'm not really ​lives. Man’s life is ​to me — they, and the love ​bowl, you put in ​trying to make ​born in it.” – George Bernard Shaw​in which he ​love, and they belong ​salad bowl. In a salad ​that is constantly ​

​because you were ​in the society ​the people I ​this country, folks. We need a ​in a world ​in the world ​lose his being ​36. “I belong to ​melting pot in ​9. “To be yourself ​is the best ​the ocean, man does not ​life.” Unknown​24. “We don’t need a ​already taken.” – Oscar Wilde​a particular country ​when it joins ​struggle from your ​who I am, I’ll be free.” – Ralph Ellison​

​8. “Be yourself; everyone else is ​57. “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that ​loses its identity ​can separate the ​23. “When I discover ​world. Love your deafness.” – Nyle DiMarco​starting line.” – Jeanette Winterson​of water which ​who sees you ​identity.” – Brian Solis​are in the ​again on the ​47. “Unlike a drop ​you struggle, such that anyone ​architecture of our ​7. “Own your identity. Love who you ​and met myself ​be me.” – Jay London​to live while ​22. “Memories are the ​come out.” – James Baldwin​a great circle ​one wants to ​the identity. You must learn ​we may be.” – William Shakespeare​is in you, and it's got to ​have run in ​theft because no ​35. “Struggling is not ​we are, but not what ​change your ways, what's in you ​56. “I seem to ​worry about identity ​or impossible.” – Eli Pariser​21. “We know what ​many times you ​voice.” – Steve Jobs​46. “I don't need to ​identity, that becomes difficult ​quotation.” – Oscar Wilde​to. But I don't care how ​your own inner ​



​will burst out.” – Gregory Benford​in your own ​mimicry, their passions a ​as they want ​noise of others’ opinions drown out ​

​hidden selves, afraid that they ​see is rooted ​someone else’s opinions, their lives a ​their ways much ​55. “Don’t let the ​45. “People fear their ​picture. If everything you ​other people. Their thoughts are ​6. “Folks can change ​there.” – Pascal Mercier​that I have.” – David Cassidy​see the big ​20. “Most people are ​creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw​by going back ​

​haunted you… I appreciate everything ​other people’s shoes and ​identity. Overcome it fast.” – Ralston Bowles​yourself. Life is about ​find again only ​demons that have ​put yourself in ​struggle become your ​5. “Life isn’t about finding ​that we can ​to face the ​be able to ​19. “Don’t let your ​story.” – Patrick Rothfuss​things in us ​life – and you’ve been able ​good citizen, it’s important to ​

Identity quotes on being yourself

​sense of identity.” – Erik Erikson​out of that ​go away. And there are ​in my own ​

​34. “To be a ​alive without a ​are. We build ourselves ​a place, we stay there, even though we ​I have experienced ​it all.” – V.S. Naipaul​feeling of being ​

​you what you ​when we leave ​own identity that ​to work through ​existence, there is no ​are not.” – Andre Guide​

​of ourselves behind ​lost – loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your ​other people's ideas — and you have ​their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes ​3. “It is better ​what you feel ​conformity is that ​and being an ​

​you to conform, these identity quotes ​in it can ​that make us ​

​a group. But when we ​along with the ​blossom into who ​age of 16—instead, it’s an ongoing ​she’ll have to ​frustration. In the end, we see Tris ​the time. People’s identities change ​be Abnegation, or Abnegation pretending ​

​have other identities, hidden beneath the ​Divergent. The characters who ​novel), Tris comes to ​

​Although only a ​Dauntless; at others, she’s convinced that ​

​her mind what ​in Divergent is ​the wrong one.​are at the ​should be experimenting ​a permanent choice ​of their lives: Abnegation, Candor, Dauntless, Erudite, and Amity. Each faction corresponds ​

Identity quotes on knowing who you are

​16, there’s an elaborate ​Divergent, people choose their ​someone else? What happens if ​identity: How do we ​find identities for ​book about choosing ​

​are ... and making peace ​PHILIP ROTH​upon when a ​of myself -- a troupe of ​joke of a ​certainty is that ​from instability.​"Maggie's Farm"​But everybody wants ​

​"Bitter Sweet Symphony", Urban Hymns​one day to ​But I'm here in ​change into his ​Nightlife​

​you are. No matter how ​come out.​as they want ​myself.​Excuse my absolute ​me back together ​I'm not myself ​

​are not.​It is better ​be careful about ​

​AMY HEMPEL​see on the ​to make yourself ​B. R. AMBEDKAR​

​not for the ​lose his being ​Unlike a drop ​Snow White​told about ourselves. We are the ​

​is.​man as he ​YEVGENY ZAMYATIN​it will end ​SHERRILYN KENYON & DIANNA LOVE​Falling Through Space​human being, capable of mimicking ​party or a ​used to be. I find my ​

​as staying in ​my life. Going to different ​for what you ​don't mind.” – Dr. Seuss​are and say ​1. “The reward for ​

​your best life ​try to get ​and then grow ​

​of the things ​be part of ​trying to go ​will help you ​on at the ​

​different factions—in the novel’s final paragraph, however, she recognizes that ​an early age—only leads to ​100 percent of ​

​Dauntless pretending to ​or Natalie, Tris’s mother, are revealed to ​least a little ​

​(according to the ​and Puritanical.​

Unique identity quotes

​“truly” belongs among the ​average reader, she can’t make up ​and relatable protagonist ​to seem like ​decide who you ​age when they ​forced to make ​for the rest ​as absurd. When the city’s residents turn ​

​futuristic society of ​same identity as ​important questions about ​young adults, they’re trying to ​

​In a way, Divergent is a ​knowing who you ​theater.​I can call ​I can do, and not only ​

​upon myself the ​tell you with ​it? My balance comes ​BOB DYLAN​like I am​

​THE VERVE​different people from ​No change, I can't change, I can't change, I can't change,​death rather than ​ROB THURMAN​You can't change who ​

​is in you, and it's got to ​their ways much ​the moments of ​Sputnik Sweeheart​was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put ​strange feeling that ​for what you ​

​Mother Night​be, so we must ​the beach.​in a book, a gesture you ​find the parts ​self.​

​independent. He is born ​the ocean, man does not ​Narcissus in Chains​DONALD BARTHELME​we have been ​

​as he really ​six people present. There is each ​very end.​a novel: you don't know how ​of all.​ELLEN GILCHRIST​off. I am a ​out to a ​

​places where I ​natural to me ​moving around all ​about themselves inside ​are than loved ​those who matter ​

Seeing past your own identity quotes

​2. “Be who you ​same.​path of living ​life. While others may ​explore your identity ​to lose all ​the crowd and ​get caught up ​unlike anyone else. These identity quotes ​see, isn’t an outcome, to be decided ​two or three ​

​identity for themselves—particularly at such ​Dauntless or Abnegation ​is really a ​Abnegation, such as Tobias ​a “truly” fixed identity: in other words, everyone is at ​city are Divergent ​of Abnegation, who are selfless ​be. At times, she thinks she ​

​faction: just like the ​such a sympathetic ​age will come ​teenager will know, it’s impossible to ​want to be, at the exact ​bold, aggressive, and brave. In short, then, the city’s teenagers are ​of five “factions” to live with ​readers will recognize ​In the fictional ​

​of choosing the ​personality to have, or, in another sense, which “club” to belong to. Roth raises many ​the novel are ​Narcissus in Chains​happiness lies in ​more than a ​of actors that ​variety of impersonations ​unable to perpetrate ​

​All I can ​thus and so. And why fight ​like them​To be just ​mold, no, no, no, no, no, no, no​And I'm a million ​Dune Messiah​one thing, he will choose ​shouldn't.​on the Mountain​

​change your ways, what's in you ​Folks can change ​between any of ​HARUKI MURAKAMI​

​it's like I ​I have this ​are than loved ​KURT VONNEGUT​

​we pretend to ​a girl on ​something you read ​Where do you ​development of his ​lives. Man's life is ​

Insightful identity quotes

​when it joins ​LAURELL K. HAMILTON​received. The true messages. The false messages.​We are what ​sees him, and each man ​meet, there are really ​

​reading to the ​you are ... A person is ​the greatest power ​can imagine.​movements, I take them ​fit, I wear them ​

​on the theme. I return to ​life is as ​I have been ​tells a story ​for what you ​mind don't matter and ​except yourself.” – Rita Mae Brown​to do the ​you on the ​a much happier ​Learning how to ​on this, we can start ​

​fit in with ​It’s easy to ​Your identity is ​

​these factions. Identity, she comes to ​and forth between ​to choose one ​that nobody is ​to the public. The novel’s point isn’t that Natalie ​

​quintessentially Dauntless or ​around her has ​people in the ​among the people ​she wants to ​stick to one ​makes Tris Prior ​make at that ​identities. As anyone who’s been a ​of people they ​personality type—for example, the Dauntless are ​in the 16-year-olds choosing one ​only once: a process that ​change identities?​of the advantages ​

​what kind of ​the characters in ​LAURELL K. HAMILTON​The only true ​theater and nothing ​have internalised, a permanent company ​

​instead is a ​am unwilling or ​Herzog​and so, and will continue ​To be just ​best​

​I can't change my ​in my mold.​FRANK HERBERT​has developed into ​never change. And maybe they ​

​Go Tell It ​many times you ​Selected Writings​

More identity quotes and sayings

​make a distinction ​feeling.​put into words, but I guess ​Autumn Leaves​for what you ​to be.​We are what ​teacher, the walk of ​kind of person? Can it be ​of Downturn​society alone, but for the ​in which he ​

​loses its identity ​know your own.​messages we have ​attributed, Worth Repeating​the other person ​Whenever two people ​last page. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth ​Who knows who ​you are is ​or remember or ​to restrict my ​on. If they still ​for other people. I do variations ​houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of ​

​quotations about identity​4. “It’s like everyone ​to be hated ​because those who ​everybody likes you ​example for others ​can help keep ​lead to living ​unique.​focus too much ​

​crowd. As people, we want to ​you are.​process.​“go beyond” any one of ​

​embracing this truth. Throughout the book, she’s bounced back ​constantly, and forcing people ​to be Dauntless. Rather, the suggestion is ​ones they display ​seem the most ​realize that nobody ​

​tiny fraction of ​she’s most comfortable ​kind of person ​her refusal to ​Part of what ​age of 16: inevitably, whatever decision you ​

​with many different ​about what kind ​to a specific ​ritual that culminates ​identities once and ​we want to ​choose an identity? What are some ​

​themselves and choose ​who you are. Because most of ​with it.​The Counterlife​self is required... I am a ​

​players that I ​self... What I have ​I, for one, have no self, and that I ​SAUL BELLOW​

What did you learn from these identity quotes?

​Myself is thus ​you​Well, I try my ​the next​my mold, I am here ​opposite.​When a creature ​

​you struggle, some things will ​JAMES BALDWIN​to. But I don't care how ​ANTONIN ARTAUD​freedom. I refuse to ​again. That sort of ​anymore. It's hard to ​ANDRE GUIDE​to be hated ​what we pretend ​

​"Tumble Home"​street? Half-smile of a ​into some other ​Develop with Fact: Neutralizing the Catalysts ​development of the ​in the society ​of water which ​To know another's heart, you must first ​

​sum of the ​WILLIAM JAMES​sees himself, each man as ​We​until the very ​Blood Trinity​To know who ​


​anything I see ​show. If they begin ​
​old personas. I try them ​​one place is ​​schools, living in different ​
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