Identity Quote by Stephen Dunn Download Open image “I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.” — Stephen Dunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity
Then all I swore that I would never be was now. So suddenly the only thing I wanted to become. To be someone just… — Dream Theater Copy Share Image
I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me. — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
I thought that he was my one and only until I found out that I wasnt his only one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more. — Dorothy Koomson Copy Share Image
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The truth is, it doesnt really matter who I used to be, its all about who I am now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside. I've finally found… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
“He held her like a new woman and what she felt felt almost as good as love had, and each of them called it… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. I've always thought of my… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
The world is always somewhat vicious. I take that as a given, but at various times in various circumstances that fact will be no… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in one of… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“God knows nothing we don't know. We gave him every word he ever said.” — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world. — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“That time I thought I was in love and calmly said so was not much different from the time I was truly in love… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor.… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In the worldly life, due to maadakta (intoxication of the ego of ‘I am Chandubhai’), one has completely lost awareness of everything about one’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image