Veronica Roth Quotes

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

What I've found at 48 years old is that there's nothing about me that's unique.

I'm more than just a shooter.

Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I.

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

I'm tired of pretending I'm not special.

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!

I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?

And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way. Such was Momo's talent for listening.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I don't think I'm boring.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.