Identity Quotes

"The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse." "One cannot live through a day without revealing oneself." "Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment—the moment when a man knows forever more who he is." "I don't know if you know who you are until you lose who you are " "We’re happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time" "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found" "Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person." "People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think" "What we know matters but who we are matters more" "Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are" "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." "It’s possible to change anything and everything, but what you can’t change is your basic essence." "Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who you are." "When we seek the gaze of another, it isn’t always our partner we are turning to—it’s the other in ourselves." "The pleasure we find in thinking about the future comes not from imagining achieving our goals, but from the secret hope that we will somehow no longer be ourselves when we get there." "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend" "Day by day, what you do is who you become" "I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Aside from that, I have within me all the dreams of the world." "Be yourself because everyone else is already taken."