84 Quotes About Identity-crisis

My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.

As a teenager I felt misunderstood. I felt confused. Somewhere in that confusion was me. The me I was destined to become.

Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

Being half, I am evidence that race, too, will become relic. Eventually we're all going to be brown, sort of. Some days, when I'm reeling grand, I feel brand-new - like a prototype. Back in the olden days, my dad's ancestors got stuck behind the Alps and my mom's on the east side of the Urals. Now, oddly, I straddle this blessed, ever-shrinking world.

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basiccondition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which livesmust do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse thatfeeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe

I don't know what I'm saying. I guess what I mean is that sometimes I don't know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?

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.

Who am I? At this point, I have no clue.