Quotes about identity

I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet.

"You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.

A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two. The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew. The changeless part was always true, the growing part was always new, and I wondered, when the tale was through, which part was me, and which was you.

We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe.

Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!

Those must have all been important to me once. What I am now grew from that. A former self is a fool, an insufferable ass, but he's still human, you'd no more turn him out than you'd turn out any kind of cripple, would you?

“I am not my childhood," Snowman says out loud.

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

"And isn't that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self."

"I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself."