IDENTITY QUOTES V

quotations about identity

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

CHARLES DE LINT

Happily Ever After


This also shows wherein the identity of the same man consists, viz. in participation of the same continued life by particles of matter successively united to the same organized body.

JOHN LOCKE

Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding

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What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook


It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

DON DELILLO

Point Omega


The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.

DAVID RICHO

interview, The Urban Muse


No matter how many faces I have, there is no changing the fact that I am me.

KOBO ABE

The Face of Another


The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now


If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one by one all the aspects it is able to assume, all those likewise that have been attributed to it, this upbringing, this origin, this ardor or these silences, this nobility or this vileness. But aspects cannot be added up.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus


Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there is a mighty lord, an unknown sage--his name is self.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra


Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that's a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

interview, Title Trakk: Your Christian Book


I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote


As connected with the thought of other persons the self idea is always a consciousness of the peculiar or differentiated aspect of one's life, because that is the aspect that has to be sustained by purpose and endeavor, and its more aggressive forms tend to attach themselves to whatever one finds to be at once congenial to one's own tendencies and at variance with those of others with whom one is in mental contact. It is here that they are most needed to serve their function of stimulating characteristic activity, of fostering those personal variations which the general plan of life seems to require.

CHARLES HORTON COOLEY

Human Nature and the Social Order


This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

AYN RAND

Anthem


What if there are not only two nostrils, two eyes, two lobes, and so forth, but two psyches as well, and they are separately equipped? They go through life like Siamese twins inside one person.... They can be just a little different, like identical twins, or they can be vastly different, like good and evil.

NORMAN MAILER

Harlot's Ghost


Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.

PATRICIA BRIGGS

Cry Wolf