2,417 Quotes About Identity

In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.

Eğer toplumsal cinsiyet transvestit ise, ve eğer bu, yaklaşmayı denediği ideali düzenli olarak doğuran bir taklitse, o zaman toplumsal cinsiyet, bir içsel cinsiyet ya da öz ya da psişik toplumsal cinsiyet çekirdeği yanılsamasını doğuran bir temsildir; içsel derinlik yanılsamasını tende, jestle, hareketle, yürüyüşle (cinsiyetin takdimi olarak anlaşılan bedensel temsiller silsilesiyle) doğurur.

Wherever it takes disaster to unite, politics generally divide: and in eras of intense uncertainty, a nation's people retreat into the tribes in which they feel the most secure.

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.

The rage for 'identity' too often bespeaks a preference for simplicity rather than for complexity.

I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton--go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday--I don't know why--and my father had no name at all--his identity and existence had been scrubbed by the ChronoGuard after he went rogue. To all intents and purposes he didn't exist at all. It didn't matter. He was always Dad to me...

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

What then? Who then?' she said. 'Thirty-six; in a motor car; a woman. Yes, but a million other things as well.