84 Quotes About Identity-crisis

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.- Through the Gates of the Silver Key

What…defines a person as a unique individual? A natural disposition? A face? A vocabulary of gestures? Are we born individuals…or do we mold ourselves into unique creatures through our experiences and accomplishments? Every human enters the world with a vast, incalculable potential. But myriad factors invariably conspire to prevent us from fully achieving that potential.

If our identity cannot exist in a vacuum, then what value does it have?

It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John was five years old and in the first grade that he was first noticed; and since he was noticed by an eye altogether alien and impersonal, he began to perceive, in wild uneasiness, his individual existence.

Und nun weiß ich gar nicht wie ich mich unterschreiben soll. Ich bin nicht Modersohn und ich bin auch nicht mehr Paula Becker.Ich binIch,und hoffe, es immer mehr zu werden.Das ist wohl das Endziel von allem unserm Ringen.

I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.

Your identity is not in who you can be. It is in who you always have been

She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?

I am nobody, nobody is me,I hold nothing, nothing holds me.I belong to no one, no one belongs to me.