Lost Identity Quotes

#1. He hams his Brummie accent, I tell myself, the way so many ex-pats ham their lost identity. The moustache is a pose. Yet, he hams this unpredictable matey belligerence, this curiously Midlands attitude. Colin is home away from home, I reflect, even if not the home you ever really liked.

Tim Parks

#2. You will be someone else if you did not answer the question "Who am I

Sunday Adelaja

#3. I think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

Pattie Boyd

#4. Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

Rebecca Solnit

#5. I lost my public self, or had it stolenIn a way, it was a form of identity theft.

Monica Lewinsky

#6. Falling in love is when your emotional, physical and spiritual well-being is wrapped up in another person and identity of self is lost. EL

Evinda Lepins

#7. Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

Patrick Dempsey

#8. It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You're suddenly somebody's wife. And you're like, 'Oh, I'm half of a couple now. I've lost me.'

Angelina Jolie

#9. They come to understand, with awe, the complexity of the compound identity that existed on the Earth. They conclude with a shudder that the Earthly you is utterly lost, unpreserved in the afterlife. You were all these ages, and you were none.

David Eagleman

#10. I am not myself.
My thoughts are tangled in words that are not my own.

Tahereh Mafi

#11. He wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate

Salman Rushdie

#12. 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

#13. Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein's memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author's journey to reclaim - and celebrate - that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.

Mira Bartok

#14. MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. Somewhere along the way, they kind of lost their identity as a news channel, and they started doing a lot of other sort of magazine-type programming.

Brit Hume

#15. You became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close ...

John Geddes

#16. A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

Anais Nin

#17. When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

Paige Rense

#18. Nothing is really lost or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form
no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing ...
The body, sluggish, aged , cold
the embers
left from early fires,
... shall duly flame again

Nicholas Sparks

#19. I think that there comes a point in the life of every young person to break away from the intimacy that they share with their parents. It is not to say that the intimacy is lost, but that it needs to change as children forge an autonomous identity and make their way into the adult world.

Polixeni Papapetrou

#20. 'Banshee' is the story of a man who gets out of prison, tracks down his long-lost love, and tries to reclaim what was stolen from him years earlier by assuming the identity of a sheriff. I guess you could say it's an explosive action drama - sit down, strap in, and enjoy the ride!

Antony Starr

#21. I'd say I needed to find myself, if that didn't sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwear.

Kelley Armstrong

#22. After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

Mathias Rust

#23. My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.
My mind, I hope, will soon be found.

Tahereh Mafi

#24. I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a household that preferred me working, which threw me off completely.

Mika Brzezinski

#25. Storytelling is an essential part of our cultural and human identity...when we become afraid of stories outside the mainstream, I believe we have lost a valuable part of our cultural inheritance and growth.

Louise Sommer

#26. Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

Jennifer Capriati

#27. Take me back into the time when I lost track of time!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#28. Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

James Norman Hall

#29. Ladies, no matter how hard you try, a man will never complete you. Only God can. And if you don't know your identity in Him, you'll be lost forever.

Deborah N. Kabwang

#30. It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.

Mary J. Blige

#31. I thought he was someone I wanted to know. As it turns out, it was a case of
mistaken identity.

Jodi Livon

#32. 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.

Marilyn Manson

#33. When Germany and England and America will long have lost their present identity or purpose, we shall still be strong in ours.

Maurice Samuel

#34. 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

G. Willow Wilson

#35. So, if you don't fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

George Monbiot

#36. Oshima once used the term hollow men. Well, that's exactly what I've become. There's a void inside me, a blank that's slowly expanding, devouring what's left of who I am. I can hear it happening. I'm totally lost, my identity dying. There's no direction where I am, no sky, no ground.

Haruki Murakami

#37. We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

Sigmar Polke

#38. Proclaiming the gospel to a lost world cannot be just another activity to add to the church's crowded agenda. It must be central to who we are. It forms our identity.

Francis Chan

#39. It's improbable for me to become lost, because I am already self-realized. A blank scene is a portrait of a glass kingdom to me. In order to become lost, one must not be able to realize their own identity, ego, and self.

Lionel Suggs

#40. If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

Oprah Winfrey

#41. Literature is that neuter, that composite, that oblique into which every subject escapes, the trap where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

Roland Barthes

#42. The solution to the problem of identity is, get lost

Norman O. Brown

#43. The things that truly define me can't be lost.

Amy Neftzger

#44. We lost our country somewhere along the way. We know where we lost it but we do not appear to have the strength to eliminate those blocking our view to enable us to develop our common identity.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#45. It's the anonymity of the war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers.

Diana Gabaldon

#46. If you dont love, youve lost your distinction, definition, uniqueness, and identity.

Judah Smith

#47. I once saw a show about an amputee who lost his leg and still feels it. He actually wakes up at night to scratch his leg as if it's still there, attached to him. They call it a phantom limb.
I would be like that. A phantom draki, tormented with the memory of what I once was.

Sophie Jordan

#48. We are all children of a God who knows us, loves us, and is there for us, especially in our sorrow and suffering. To be separated from Him is to be lost.

Toni Sorenson

#49. I understood that one's environment is a key to one's identity, but that my environment, Papa Song's, was a key I had lost.

David Mitchell

#50. The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

Os Guinness

#51. The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

Andre Breton

#52. Somewhere along the way I feel as though I lost my identity and its not like losing a passport it feels more like losing someone so dear to your heart that it pains you everyday to be so unsure if you'll ever see them again or not

Donal O'Callaghan

#53. There's a drive in a lost soul - in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.

Doug Cooper

#54. A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

Lucy Stone

#55. Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

Judith Guest

#56. There is no reason to feel lost, for: Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, No birth, identity, form
no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing; ... The body, sluggish, aged, cold
the embers left from earlier fires, ... shall duly flame again.

Nicholas Sparks

#57. When people live in abnormality for too long, the abnormal becomes normal and eventually, identity is lost

Kudakwashe Mazendame