Identity

I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

—Veronica Roth in Insurgent

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

—Erich Fromm

The rich are different from us.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

—Jackson Pollock

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

—Jean Baudrillard

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

—James Baldwin

This work is about transformation—from the person we are to the person we really are. In the end, we can't be anyone else.

—Marion Rosen

Traveling is a fool's paradise.… I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

—Cary Grant

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

—Dr. Seuss

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

—Jess C. Scott in  The Devilin Fey

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

—G. K. Chesterton

Sometimes I miss the old me.

—Ann Aguirre in Aftermath