Haruki Murakami Quotes

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

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.

It's easy to forget who you are.

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

We all need a firm sense of identity.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

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

I think, for me, it has been important to remain 'Petra from Fulnek.'

My music is a whole reflection of who I'm as an individual.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

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.

You're always just going to be who you are.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.