Sheila Heti Quotes

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm more interested in transitions.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

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 see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what you are. I know who I am, but these people who see me as I was then don't.

I'm still the same cat I always was.

We all have different aspects of ourselves, and who we are to different people in our lives, at different stages of our lives.

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

All of us, and particularly young people, have a tendency to view ourselves and our natures as static: you'll choose to do something for a few years, and you'll still be the same you.

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.