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Identity Quotes


"There is nobody else on earth like you and me. Let us be who we are meant to be."


"If you're born a man, be a man. If a woman, be proud of being one. For, you're not the body, mind, this or that. "Ye are gods!" - human."


"You're not a book person. And now you're not an internet person? What does that leave you?"


"Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care."


"When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential."


"But even with respect to the most insignificant things in life, none of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book of specifications or a last testament; our social personality is a creation of the minds of others."


"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."


"Don't judge me by my appearance,by my looks,My Soul has a beautiful decorated Grave."


"We're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just... well, better at it than most."


"I'm a lot to handle, but I can assure you, you'll have fun handling me."


"I am a baby, I am a child, I am the innocent wonder in my eyes I am a glimpse, I am a sign, of someone I can be, someone I might I am not one, I am not two, but I am a million things entwined I am a piece, I am a slice, strung together by the yarns of time."


"Agnes subtracts from her self everything that is exterior and borrowed, in order to come closer to her sheer essence (even with the risk that zero lurks at the bottom of the subtraction). Laura's method is precisely the opposite: in order to make her self ever more visible, perceivable, seizable, sizeable, she keeps adding to it more and more attributes and she attempts to identify herself with them (with the risk that the essence of the self may be buried by the additional attributes)."


"Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress , my hairdresser, my make-up, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments."


"Clothing doesn't really change a man. But it changes how others react to him."


"I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else."



"People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair."


"Other kids are kids almost just like you - it's true.Other kids are kids too, but there's no other you, but YOU!"


"A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh, the shape of nose and mouth, and yet we protest, This isn't me."


"Many have came before you and many will come after you, but none will ever be you. Some may even try to duplicate your characteristics, but they'll never succeed because you are unique."


"He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process."


"I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essentially human, not intellectual. I do not understand abstract act. Only art born of love, passion, pain."


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


"The fact is no one has understood me in entirety till now!"


"He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house."


"Marquez was not born in Colombia.He was born in Macondo, And his Macondo is his La Mancha."


"Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that."


"In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond."


"Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real "I" to reveal itself."


"Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance."


"I had yet to learn that when it came to gender, I was both and neither."


"When I look in the mirror,I see me.Who do you see?"


"Examine this statement: 'A woman cannot be a poet.' Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?"


"Not what hatches out is the face to the world."


"And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts."


"An apple never bares a pear."


"She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist."


"Inside every woman, is a crazy girl. And we all know what I'm talking about. That part of you that is entangled with insecurities, fears, and absolute insanity! The art of femininity lies in the molding, pounding, and defeating of that crazy girl on a daily basis! Look at any woman, and you're looking at a woman fighting a daily battle, wielding her weapons in war, every day! I have said it before and I'll say it again: it is never easy being a woman! And if we could only pound that crazy, insecure girl out of ourselves, it would make such the difference!"


"I don't care to be pretty," Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside."



"Who is considered a person [vyakti]? The one who has manifested (expressed) a little in the embodied self [vyakt] can be known as a person [vyakti]. If he is manifested (expressed) completely, he is known as a special person."


"There were many versions of Gansey, but this one had been rare since the introduction of Adam's taming presence. It was also Ronan's favorite. It was the opposite of Gansey's most public face, which was pure control enclosed in a paper-thin wrapper of academia. But this version of Gansey was Gansey the boy. This was the Gansey who bought the Camaro, the Gansey who asked Ronan to teach him to fight, the Gansey who contained every wild spark so that it wouldn't show up in other versions. Was it the shield beneath the lake that had unleashed it? Orla's orange bikini? The bashed-up remains of his rebuilt Henrietta and the fake IDs they'd returned to? Ronan didn't really care. All that mattered was that something had struck the match, and Gansey was burning."
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