Identity Quote by Ann Leckie

“Our sense of identity is held captive by the judgements of those we live among.”

— Alain de Botton

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

“and people could only make sense of complicated matters through stories. Likewise”

— Neal Stephenson

“Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are.”

— Claire Messud

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Your story is your identity, and you’d do almost anything to prove that it’s true. Inquiry into self is the only thing that has…

— Byron Katie

“Identity negates possibility, denies openness to other life. Identity kills, both metaphorically and very, very literally.”

— John Holloway

“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.”

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr

“analysis of the story will sometimes undercut our antepredicative grasp of it).”

— James K.A. Smith

Writing about identity can be like maneuvering through a minefield, even when considering contemporary figures who have discussed the subject themselves.

— William J. Mann

“In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably along with it down the river of pseudo-life.…

— Václav Havel

“There is not identity, nor non-identity, or non-coincidence, there is inside and outside turning about one another.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty