625 quotes found
“Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”
“Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.”
“Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story.”
“It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.”
“Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.”
“Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.”
“In order to live a meaningful life,humans need answers, i.e., a certain understanding of basic existential questions. These answers do not have to be made completely explicit, as a lack of words do...”
“The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?”
“I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?"Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people ner...”
“Here is the life you have tried to throw away. Here is your second chance. Here is the destiny you have tried to shake off by inventing a hundred false roles, a hundred false identities for yoursel...”
“After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self...”
“So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling awayand everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.”
“Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.”
“Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?”
“Dani said this woman, with whom shed lived for two years, had never known her. I feel like people accept the first thing I show them, she said, and thats all I ever am to them.”
“For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any ...”
“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light....”
“No one knows me. Not anymore”
“I am a commuter, not between the city and the village, although I do this frequently; not between the inane idealism of the classroom and the stifling reality beyond it, which I must do for surviva...”
“She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, Billy Slick doesnt sound much like a goblin name? Billy made a face. Too right! Granny calls me Of t...”
