Identity Quotes - Page 20

All forms of violence are quests for identity. When you live on the frontier, you have no identity. You're a nobody.

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.

As photographers, we have to find our own identity, our own voice, our own vocabulary. And my question all the time is whether this vocabulary is limited, like our own vocabulary that goes from A to Zed, or whether this vocabulary can carry on growing. And to me, I hope that it carries on growing.

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'

When you tell people, your world changes, your identity changes and people treat you differently. And then, not only do you have to deal with your own emotional response to what's going on, but you take on everybody else's emotional response.

The Christian's comfort: I am not my own. I do not make my own rules or create my own identity. There is one who made me and can save me.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity.

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like

Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

My first book was about grappling with my identity and transitioning medically and socially as a young person. At that point, it hadn't been told yet. There wasn't a trans memoir that was written from the perspective of a young person that transitioned.

We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.