Alive Quote by Jacques Derrida

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only…

— Tennessee Williams

“My name isn't Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it's forbidden. I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is…

— Margaret Atwood

“Ask no one to speak of you, not even contemptuously. And when time passes and you notice how your name is spreading around among…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

— Ralph Ellison

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

— Anonymous

The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became…

— Philip Ridley

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

Players aren't quite as intimidated by my name.

— Pete Sampras

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“To name is to make visible.”

— Anonymous

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as…

— Ralph Ellison

“My friends tell me I am strong, decisive, and wise. What a joke. Where is my strength tonight? Where is my wisdom? Ironically, they…

— Lily Velden