Identity Quote by Li-Young Lee

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others)…

— Susan Sontag

Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a…

— James Gleick

“Although selfhood depends causally upon the existence of the brain, it amounts to something far more than the brain. This something is vague and…

— Neel Burton

The self cannot be self without other selves.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

No self is of itself alone

— Erwin Schrodinger

There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic…

— Paul Klee

There is no self.

— Harry Dean Stanton

“The self is simply this subject; it is the story we tell ourselves about our experiences.”

— Lehrer Jonah

“The self requires a story.”

— André Gide

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

— Anais Nin

To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the…

— Oliver Sacks