Thomas McGuane Quotes

I reached a point in my life where I didn't really like who I was.I was married to an amazing woman. I had children, and yet there was frustration.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

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

I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.

I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

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

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

Like most people in college, I just wasn't really sure who I was.