Riz Ahmed Quotes

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

I don't feel rushed to figure myself out. I have all the time in the world to do that.

We spend our life until we’re twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

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.

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

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

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.

When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.

It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall.

Everyone goes through that time in their life when they're trying to figure out who they are, find their own purpose and their own way.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

I'm still finding my way, and I made a lot of mistakes.

The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.