Virginia Woolf Quotes

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I try to be authentically who I am.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

A person who is truly authentic doesn't need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him - or herself.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

I like being known for who I am.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

Your fate is to be yourself, both punishment and crime.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

Never follow anybody else's idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one's nature than to live following somebody's else's nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one's nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.