Maya Moore Quotes

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

I did have a midlife crisis.

I am such a desperate man headed into a midlife crisis.

She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?

I might never ride Corr again. I don't know who I am without him.

When you try to build an identity based on one idea, the easy part is to stick with the good things that you do.

A lot of the things that I put before football, was really not fun anymore without football.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it. A clear gap separated me from it, and this caused me great confusion. I felt as if I were not anchored to this world - this world that I had hated so passionately until then; this world that I had continued to revile for its unfairness and injustice; this world where at least I knew who I was. Now the world ceased to be the world, and I had ceased to be me.

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

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.

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

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

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

Actually, when John died, for the first time I thought - for the first time I realized how old I was, because I'd always thought of myself - when John was alive I saw myself through his eyes and he saw me as how old I was when we got married - and so when he died I kind of looked at myself in a different way. And this has kept on since then. The yellow corvette. When I gave up the yellow corvette, I literally gave up on it, I turned it in on a Volvo station wagon.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.