Top 100 Who Am Quotes
#1. Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.
Horace
#2. There are some questions that we all ask ourselves in different ways: Who am I? Who is God? What am I here for? What matters most? What matters least? What are my unique talents and abilities? What will my contribution be? What happens when we die?
Matthew Kelly
#3. You should be constantly asking yourself: What do I want to say next? What do I believe in? Who am I? What is my image? To be a successful photographer, you have to have a unique point of view otherwise you'll get lost in the mix.
Mario Sorrenti
#4. Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
Neal Shusterman
#6. Peter must have thought, "Who am I compared to Mr. Faithfulness (John)?" But Jesus clarified the issue. John was responsible for John. Peter was responsible for Peter. And each had only one command to heed: "Follow Me." (John 21:20-22)
Charles R. Swindoll
#7. It is not possible to know 'Who am I?' by 'doing'. 'Doing' (anything), requires egoism, and where there is egoism, 'Who am I' cannot be known.
Dada Bhagwan
#8. Who am I, anyway? Does one exist, or to what extent does one exist as an individual without friends, family, anybody to whom one can relate, to whom one's existence is of the least importance?
Patricia Highsmith
#9. Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?
Carrie Jones
#10. But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?
Billie Burke
#11. By the inquiry 'Who am I?'.
The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts,
and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.
Ramana Maharshi
#12. I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things. It is not the earth, it is not America, who is so great, it is I who am great or to be great ...
Walt Whitman
#13. Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to do as he will, because of the life that he has given me. I am thankful for him, for the fact that out of all of us, I am the one that he chooses to keep and care for as his own.
Astrid Knowles
#14. Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?
D.H. Lawrence
#15. Who am I ?
Standing in the midst
of this thought traffic.
Rumi
#16. Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which come back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are. And who am I?
Alexander McCall Smith
#17. What does he [Pope Francis] mean, "Who am I to judge?" People think he's fantastic, but they also wonder how some of these pieces fit.
Ralph Martin
#18. That's right. Who am I thinking of? Oh, I know. It's Cinna who likes you. But that's mainly because you didn't try to run when he set you on fire," says Peeta. "On the other hand, Haymitch ... well, if I were you, I'd avoid Haymitch completely. He hates you.
Suzanne Collins
#19. There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#20. I really need to break him of the bad language habit he's developing at a rapid pace, but who am I to talk? I curse all the fucking time.
Monica Murphy
#21. You are my cry, you're my tears, you're my joy, you're my heart and love, only I don't know who am I.
Debasish Mridha
#22. I think it's pretty clear that the Internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are.
Eric Schmidt
#23. For a kid in crisis, there is no "make it happen," only "survive today." Who am I to have the cojones to think my "critical questions" are the most important thing in this kid's life? I think of the times I was in crisis and failed to pay attention to the manila folders on my desk as an adult.
Dawn Casey-Rowe
#24. I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?
Christopher Lee
#25. I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
Maggie Grace
#26. The search "Who am I" ... ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand.
Ramana Maharshi
#27. Richard opened his hand, and the key stared up at him from his palm. "By my crooked teeth," asked Richard, remembering, "who am I?
Neil Gaiman
#28. Who is God? Who am I? What does God want to do for his kingdom purposes through my unique voice?
Keith R. Anderson
#29. They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modelling.
Lew Wallace
#30. I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it?
Michael Gungor
#31. Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
Ramana Maharshi
#32. People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I to act as if I have a choice in the matter? Especially when my future and that of my children in large part depends on the eradication of racism? There is no choice.
Tim Wise
#33. You like Superman?"
I shrugged, "He lacks the boyish charm of Spiderman, but he's alright."
"I'm like Superman."
I rolled my eyes. "This should be good. And who am I? Louis Lane?"
A solemn shake of his head, and then his hands were tangling in my hair. "You're kryptonite.
Adrianne Brooks
#34. Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
Bob Uecker
#35. Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?
Curtis Jackson
#36. The question "who am I" is the first question that every person should ask himself
Sunday Adelaja
#37. It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?
Christopher Moore
#38. I feel shabby - because I've made a name, quite a good name, out of photography. And I still find myself asking the same questions: Who am I? What am I supposed to be? What have I done?
Don McCullin
#40. Who am I kidding? What am I going to do with a girl like her?"
"We had this talk when we were fourteen. I even brought my brother's Hustler for visual assistance.
Shelly Laurenston
#41. It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.
Nicole Polizzi
#42. We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?
George S. Clason
#43. And now?" came my dad's voice. "Now who am I?"
"The man who chose his girlfriend over his family." I turned and looked at my father. "Someone whose words I don't believe.
Jenny B. Jones
#44. Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?
Joe Wurzelbacher
#45. Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'
Gary Ackerman
#46. I, who am I among living creatures?
Enheduanna
#48. All religions are correct but the religion that searches for 'Who am I?' and 'Who is the doer?' is on the last final path of religion. And which knows this 'Who' is the final religion.
Dada Bhagwan
#49. It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.
Betty Friedan
#50. Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?
Brian Evenson
#51. Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.
RZA
#52. I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
Carlos Fuentes
#53. Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"
but,
Lewis Carroll
#54. The Rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the Rabbi that his eyes were asking, 'Who am I? Why am I here? What is the secret of my being? Rabbi Leib often saw the same bewilderment in the eyes of newborn children and even in the eyes of animals.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#55. I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir
but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.
John Steinbeck
#56. What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from
I cannot name it. But I am separated.
Arthur Adamov
#57. She's gone from Disney Channel Miley Cyrus to Full-on Twerk Mode Miley, and it's officially time for me to put a stop to it before she moves straight to Let's Make a Sex Tape Miley. Wait - has Miley ever made a sex tape? Fuck, who am I kidding? Of course she has.
Anonymous
#58. All which is regarded as 'my', belongs to the non-Self. 'I' is the Self and 'my' is of the non-Self; it is pudgal, the body-complex. There is nothing wrong with saying 'this is mine' in the worldly interactions, but the 'I', 'who am I?', must be decided from within.
Dada Bhagwan
#59. The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.
Parker J. Palmer
#61. And who am I, mighty Khan?
She felt warmth in him then, the beginnings of a smile deep inside.
He spread his wings.
Bowed his head.
Purred.
YOU ARE YUKIKO.
Jay Kristoff
#62. And that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are you?' now I ask, 'Who am I?
R. Scott Bakker
#63. I hate dry turkey. I may have over-basted it. Who am I kidding, though? No such thing. You'll eat my fucking turkey and lick your fingers when you're done.
C.J. Roberts
#64. Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren't there.
Shannon Mullen
#65. Sometimes I wake up at night in a panic. Wondering: What will my life be like? And sometimes I even wonder: Who am I? What am I doing here, on this planet, in this city, in this house? And it gives me the shivers, makes me panic.
Robert Cormier
#66. Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered.
Deepak Chopra
#67. Who am I to decide if he is worth my love or not when I can't even...
Pushpa Rana
#68. Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237
Alice Walker
#69. Who am I?" My first spoken words.
"No one," she said. "Nosoul.
Jodi Meadows
#70. Who am I to you?' That's what she asked me. 'Who am I to you?' I told her 'You are my friend, my mate, my beloved; you are all the things I need and all the things I don't deserve. That's who you are, Sally. You are mine.'" ~Costin
Quinn Loftis
#71. When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes
Darren Hayes
#72. My first movie, I got nominated for a Canadian Oscar-for Meatballs. For MEATBALLS. And who am I up against? George C. Scott. So he wins the award and I stand up and go, 'That's it-let's get the hell outta here.'
Bill Murray
#73. Once, she had been her parents' daughter. Then great, unlucky Ias's wife. Her children's mother. At the last, her mother's keeper. Well, I am none of these things now. Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#74. Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what.
Clarice Lispector
#75. Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: "Who am I?"
Isak Dinesen
#76. I don't think of it so much as the shows I did or the film sets. I mean, sometimes you'll get a nice location, but it's more, 'Who am I meeting on a day-to-day basis?' Often the rehearsals are a lot more fun than the show itself.
Joshua Sasse
#77. The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.
Cherie Lunghi
#78. When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.
Sharon Olds
#79. Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
Idina Menzel
#80. Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?
Matthew Weiner
#81. Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.
Henri Nouwen
#82. Who am I to judge you on the past I bet theirs a reason for it all.
Drake
#83. When Moses says, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?" God answers not by telling Moses who he is, but by telling him who God is, saying, "I will be with you" (Exodus 3:12)
Harold S. Kushner
#84. When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?
Pablo Neruda
#85. I to whom there is not beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely. There I sat.
Virginia Woolf
#86. Who am I kidding? This isn't a fairy tale. It's my life.
Zoe Cruz
#87. Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park; an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.
John Green
#88. A yellow leaf fluttered down from overhead and settled in his lap, a clear, almost transparent yellow against the brownness of the robe. He moved to brush it off and then he let it stay. For who am I, he thought, to interfere with or dispute even such a simple thing as the falling of a leaf. He
Clifford D. Simak
#89. Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer.
Michael Beckwith
#90. My job [is] to awaken possibility in other people. If their eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If they're not shining you get to ask this question: "Who am I being that my children's eyes are not shining?"
Benjamin Zander
#91. I was dealing with a lot of spiritual questions like "Who am I?" "What is God" "What is the meaning of life?" All of these questions that I think we can either face head on or choose to ignore, it's up to us.
John McLaughlin
#92. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou are bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#93. Essentially, what the most important questions we can ever ask ourselves are, "Who am I? Who are we all? What do we share, and what is our purpose here? How do we discover meaning?" Addressing these questions is the core of Inspirational Psychology.
Lee L Jampolsky
#94. You will be someone else if you did not answer the question "Who am I
Sunday Adelaja
#95. In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#96. I am a nightmare to most, and a dream for the broken; who am I?' and the answer to that is death." "Correct.
Roshani Chokshi
#97. Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring.
But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
... beer is good enough for me.
Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves
#98. Although personal calling I sense,
Who am I? even if I am,
I don't know.
Dejan Stojanovic
#99. Who am I to decide what someone should or shouldn't do? People skip funerals and memorials all the time, for all sorts of reasons. Maybe they want to grieve for their loved ones in private. Maybe it's too hard for them. Maybe they just don't believe in funerals. It's not my place to judge
Elle Kennedy
#100. I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.
Len Wiseman
