2,417 Quotes About Identity

We frantically expend our lives attempting to be what we think we should be, rather than being who we are. And if we would just settle into ourselves, we would soon discover that that is who we should have been all along.

I sometimes stood for long momentslistening to some bird telling me of the strangeness of myself

Society mainly uses the concept of self to chain man’s thoughts and behaviour to a pole called ‘I’.

To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time.

People often make faces, in private, in front of bathroom mirrors, to convince themselves of their own attractiveness. The ‘lively belief that an unseen audience is present,’ Goffman writes, can have a significant effect.

A self is not consciousness and a self is not life. A self is the unique positioning of an individual relative to society. Self is a wholly social creation.

The field of psychology has been less than successful at explaining human behaviour. It has been far less successful at establishing a normative ideal for human development.

There's a void inside me, a blank that's slowly expanding, devouring what's left of who I am. I can hear it happening. I'm totally lost, my identity dying.

as if my own voicecould return meto myself.