2,417 Quotes About Identity

The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale…there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasn’t sure who he was anymore. Or who I was.

After the war, I learned a lesson I would never forget: how a person can disappear inside themselves, and that, sometimes, like my father, they are never able to find their way back.

The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.”- Near Kin

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.'-Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, poem by Marieta Maglas

Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say that at each moment while the pen moves he is truly himself? At one moment he might truly be himself, at another he might simply be making things up. How can one know for sure? Why should he even want to know for sure?

People will only fight so hard to try and old on to what they have, but they'll dig in and fight forever to protect who they are.

I want topeel away all the labelsI had once given to othersand place themupon the fabricof my own identity. They have reflected back to me,everything that I refuseto See in myself.