Top 67 Identity Crisis Crisis Quotes
#1. My former identity was lying around, somewhere, fragmented and buried, like shards from an earlier civilization.
Laurie Nadel
#2. Throwing your heart into something is great, but when any one thing becomes all that you stand for, you're vulnerable to an identity crisis when you pivot to a Plan B.
Reid Hoffman
#3. I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'
Kim Gordon
#5. Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search
for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.
Warren Farrell
#6. Travelling, he'd always thought, was where he'd meet his other self. Somewhere in a foreign place, he would bump into the bit of himself which was lost.
Monique Roffey
#7. She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean?
Stacy Hawkins Adams
#8. So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis - there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.
Stephen Covey
#9. When we do not know our true identity as powerful creators, we are susceptible to being used and manipulated.
Bryant McGill
#10. Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.
Ray Romano
#11. It's a remarkable experience to ask yourself identity-crisis questions from a comic book movie with a mostly straight face, but I don't recommend it.
Jonathan Talat Phillips
#12. I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts ... I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives.
Arlene J. Chai
#13. He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with him.
Thomas F. Monteleone
#14. Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.
Anne Taintor
#15. Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
Sara Zarr
#16. Corvina must have been so different then ... really literally a different person. At what point do you make that call? At what point should you just give someone a new name? Sorry, no, you don't get to be Corvina anymore. Now you're Corvina 2.0 - a dubious upgrade.
Robin Sloan
#17. If you have ever talked about having an "identity crisis" you have psychologist Erik Erikson to thank for inventing the term. Erikson
Tom Butler-Bowdon
#18. Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identity crisis in the questions we ask ourselves in the aftemath of error: What was I thinking? How could I have done that?
Kathryn Schulz
#19. Slim throws me a startled look. I aim my bolt shooter at him. Who am I, you sonofabitch?
Helluva time for a identity crisis, he says.
Moira Young
#20. When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
Sam Robards
#21. It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)
Peter Hochstein
#22. There's no point pretending to be someone or something we're not.
Fennel Hudson
#24. I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.
E. Leo Foster
#25. Julie helped him to feel defined. He was Julie's boyfriend. Julie's fiance. Julie's provocation. He came into focus when he stood beside her, despite the fact that the person standing beside her was mostly not him.
Meg Rosoff
#26. It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.
Luke Temple
#27. I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
Natalia Makarova
#28. Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. It's really amazing, isn't it? Someone can trigger your sexual identity crisis and not have a clue they're doing it.
Becky Albertalli
#31. In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#32. I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.
Jamie Lidell
#33. As a result, one can observe in many agents of evangelization, even though they pray, a heightened individualism, a crisis of identity and a cooling of fervour. These are three evils which fuel one another.
Pope Francis
#34. I'm a stranger in my own life.
Lang Leav
#35. I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#36. Am I the girl/ Whose giggle crinkles her big eyes/ Or the woman whose small eyes/ Crinkle her vision?
Mansi Tejpal
#38. And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing.
Imbolo Mbue
#39. Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.
Leonardo Donofrio
#40. Maybe people could fall in love without an identity crisis.
Leah Raeder
#41. Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.
Tom Paulin
#42. Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act."
"To be myself, I have to put on an act," Ginny said bitterly.
"What's that mean?"
"It means I don't know who I am.
Philip Pullman
#43. I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.
Philip Pullman
#44. Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.
Jane Leavy
#45. Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous. - Jon Snow
George R R Martin
#46. Soon the grizzly was joined by a brown bear, a sun bear, and a beaver suffering from an identity crisis of magnificent proportion
Cameron Dokey
#47. It's time to accept that I am average, and to stop making this acceptance of my averageness into a bereavement.
Sara Baume
#48. Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.
Leonardo Donofrio
#49. Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story.
Jacqui Stedmon
#50. We should be authentic: the 'real deal'. Neither a clone nor mimic be.
Fennel Hudson
#51. Identity seems to be non-existent at a personal level - at best we can end up in a minority, and those who discuss it most are just those people who are aware of its absence in themselves.
Anthony Marais
#52. It reminded him of the truth - who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him.
Kayla Krantz
#53. There was no identity crisis in the life of Jesus Christ. He knew who He was. He knew where He had come from, and why he was here. And he knew where He was going. And when you are that liberated, then you can serve.
Howard G. Hendricks
#54. It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#55. Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people.
Karen C. Eddington
#56. The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.
Christopher Eccleston
#57. As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.
Josh Hutcherson
#58. Christianity is facing something of an identity crisis. Who are we to be to the twenty-first-century world? How should the church position itself in the postmodern culture? Through what cultural languages will the gospel be best communicated in this turbulent time?
Brett McCracken
#59. I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.
Matthew Rhys
#60. Our identity has already been chosen for us; but it is up to us to accept it, or fight and change it.
Afnan Ahmad Mia
#61. After 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' I had a bit of an identity crisis as far as where I wanted to place myself in the business. When it's all new and fresh, there is a lot of pressure to know what you represent, and I didn't really get that.
Jai Courtney
#62. You can either follow your dreams or adjust with your society's expectations ... Either way, consequences are uncertain ... the path to glory or the boulevard of mediocrity, both lead to the grave ... Choose what's worthwhile, for the end is the same.
K. Hari Kumar
#63. No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.
- Through the Gates of the Silver Key
H.P. Lovecraft
#64. We usually don't realize the thing that is defining our identity until that thing is taken away.
Tim Hiller
#65. It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots.
EL Seed
#66. The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.
Salman Rushdie
#67. Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. ... Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.
Meg Jay
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