Identity Crisis Quotes
It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.
Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.
Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you're vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B.
We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.
No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of ide
My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.
She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?
And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing.
Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, he would bump into the bit of himself which was lost.
It’s time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.
Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.
It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)
An android, ” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."“Then, ” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.
Am I the girl/ Whose giggle crinkles her big eyes/ Or the woman whose small eyes/ Crinkle her vision?
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.
Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.
Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act.""To be myself, I have to put on an act, " Ginny said bitterly."What's that mean?""It means I don't know who I am.
When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.
Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.
It reminded him of the truth—who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him.
Time alone helps us to remember who we are.
We should be authentic: the ‘real deal’. Neither a clone nor mimic be.
There’s no point pretending to be someone or something we’re not.
I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.
I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.
Your purpose is your identity focus your energy on great purposes.
The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.
Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start paying attention to what I’m touching.
The root of identity crises: we seem to know a lot about ourselves, but we can't tell who we are. Realize your self!
Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...
