Identity quotes

Welcome to our collection of Identity quotes! Our identities are central to who we are as individuals, shaping our beliefs, values, and actions. Exploring the concept of identity can be a deeply personal and thought-provoking journey. Whether you are searching for inspiration, validation, or simply seeking to delve into the complexities of human existence, you will find a wide range of quotes that shed light on the intricacies of identity.

Within this category, you will encounter quotes from esteemed philosophers, authors, artists, and leaders who have reflected on the nature of identity throughout history. These quotes touch upon various aspects, such as personal identity, cultural identity, gender identity, and the intersectionality of multiple identities. Each quote offers a glimpse into the diverse perspectives and experiences that shape our understanding of who we are.

As you navigate through the pages of Identity quotes, you may come across profound insights, thought-provoking questions, and relatable anecdotes. You might discover words that resonate deeply within you or challenge your preconceived notions. We encourage you to take your time, reflect on the quotes, and engage in introspection as you explore the rich tapestry of human identity.

Whether you are seeking quotes to ignite self-discovery, to explore the complexities of social identities, or simply for inspiration, we hope this collection of Identity quotes provides you with a meaningful journey of reflection, understanding, and celebration of the diverse identities that shape our world.

Alicia Machado
Alicia Machado
Actress
I think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life.
Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
Actress
If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.
Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell
Author
Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
In every queen there's a touch of floozy.
Rebecca Godfrey
Rebecca Godfrey
Intriguing Author & Investigative Journalist
I saw this girl dancing, and I moved closer to her because I liked the way she looked, haughty and sexy but not in a slutty way, and when I got closer to her, I realized she was me and I was looking at my reflection in the mirror. I looked like the kind of girl I'd always wanted to befriend.
Russell Hoban
Russell Hoban
Versatile Author & Creative Storyteller
The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.
D.T. Suzuki
D.T. Suzuki
Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the West
When the identity is realized, I as swordsman see no opponent confronting me and threatening to strike me. I seem to transform myself into the opponent, and every movement he makes as well as every thought he conceives are felt as if they were my own and I intuitively...know when and how to strike him.
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel Heroes
I'm afraid I go through the same thing all the time.
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Iconic James Bond Actor
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Musician
For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'
Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary
American psychologist and author
Giger’s work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going.
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler
American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be. So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television host
You can't just put gay in a little gay box anymore.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
British Poet
In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
Alber Elbaz
Alber Elbaz
Israeli fashion designer
If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.
Alesha Dixon
Alesha Dixon
British Musician
I'd be lying if I did not say that being a woman of colour is something I am always mindful or aware of.
Alex Borstein
Alex Borstein
American actor, comedian, writer and producer
I've always felt like an outsider as a woman. I've never really felt wholly comfortable in a women's world or woman's things. I've never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I've seen on TV has never felt like mine.
Adwoa Aboah
Adwoa Aboah
British Model
I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Mexican Director
Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.
Agyness Deyn
Agyness Deyn
English Model
Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football player
The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
Actress
I think I'm going to be stereotyped forever, but I'm not scared of being stereotyped.
Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell
Author
Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
Russell Hoban
Russell Hoban
Versatile Author & Creative Storyteller
Them as counts counts moren them as dont count
D.T. Suzuki
D.T. Suzuki
Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the West
Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND
Stan Lee
Stan Lee
Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel Heroes
I have to force myself to get angry. But I want to show the world that there's another side to me, that I am capable of deep, deep anger and fury. They better watch out for how I'm treated.
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Iconic James Bond Actor
I never really had a strong accent.
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler
American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris
American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television host
As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.
Adwoa Aboah
Adwoa Aboah
British Model
Because I would be around so many people in the fashion industry, there's this kind of dialogue. People would always say, 'Oh your daughter is so beautiful. Is she a model?' And it was so strange for me to hear because I felt so not beautiful inside.
What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been.
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
Actress
I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent - but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
Russell Hoban
Russell Hoban
Versatile Author & Creative Storyteller
Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Iconic James Bond Actor
I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler
American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself
I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?
I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.
I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.
Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.
In general, every country has the language it deserves.
Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.
Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.
I'm nobody's daughter now. I'm through with that.
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
I never change, I simply become more myself.
I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God replied: I am not, either. I dreamed the world the way you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare: one of the forms of my dream was you, who, like me, are many and one.
It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.
Time is the substance of which we are made
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.
All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.
Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.
Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.