Elizabeth Hardwick Quotes

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who.

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.

I know when we were really little, my mom would say to me, "If you can, the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, just get quiet and ask God, 'Who is Patricia?' You can feel your own nature and know who you are."

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.

We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

One of my problems is to find the self.

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

When I stopped going to school, I got the strongest dose of perspective. When you're a kid, your friends, your school, your teachers, your family - that's your whole world, your whole existence. And then when I stopped going, I lost all my friends but the few that were really close to me.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.

I do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we relate to each other?

I think, no matter who you are, at some point in your life you've probably said, 'OK, well, who am I, and where do I fit in?'

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

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.

I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.