Gayle Forman Quotes

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

What are we taking from people and what do we give is a life-long struggle, I think, for most of us. Who are we? Do we like who we are? Do we know who we are? Do we care? Does anyone care? That's such a big topic. I could tackle that in many movies. So could other people.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

When you don't know your values or who you are or you start to believe things other people are telling you, you get lost. I was just lost because I didn't know what I meant to music or what music meant to me. Now I just belong solo and I belong by myself.

Suddenly, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to pretend I'm fooling the world when I'm not. I want someone else to have a plan for me, because I'm not doing a very good job myself.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

When I met people in the past, even before saying hello, I felt like I should explain myself: This isn't who I am!

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, 'That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.'

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

I don't even recognize myself sometimes.