625 quotes found
“Can't nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don't like that, you don't have to explain a thang to'm. All you got to say is, 'I'm Charlotte Simmons, and I don't hold ...”
“Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it, your halfway to Asphodel already.”
“That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all t...”
“I understood that people are trying to transform themselves all the time: the universal urge to be otherwise. So as not to look as they look, sound as they sound, be treated as they are treated, su...”
“Anyway, it's a good thing we're human. We design business spreadsheets, paint programs, and word processing equipment. So that tells you where we're at as a species. What is the search for the next...”
“I dont know who I am. And I dont think people ever will know who they are. We have to be humble enough to learn to live with this mysterious question. Who am I? So, I am a mystery to myself. I am s...”
“The idea of reappropriation isnt a new one. The process of turning negative words, symbols, or ideas into positive parts of our own identity was used for social justice movements long before hipst...”
“What we invent, we become”
“I open my eyes and for the first time stare openly at my own reflection. My heart rate picks up as I do, like I am breaking the rules and will be scolded for it. It will be difficult to break the h...”
“What others say about you is irrelevant. You define who you are.”
“Facebook is the perfect place to try on different identities until she finds one that sticks.”
“Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for pla...”
“I can be anything you want but definitely not a wannabe.”
“All pain in life comes from suppressing your true identity.”
“I mean, in the end it wasn't up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to use before we're born.”
“It had not occurred to him how he must appear to an outsider, to the world. For a moment he saw himself as he must thus appear; and what Edith said was part of what he saw. He had a glimpse of a fi...”
“He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff, staring into a vertiginous rush of open sky.”
“If you can accept the indescribable nature of your true identity, you unveil the mystery of life.”
“No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run.”
“She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.”
