Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.

I didn't want to become like so many of the young people I've worked with who have money, fame, and success but don't know who they are as people.

I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.

I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.

I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.

We all turn into something different, I'm just glad that I'm aware that I've had this alter ego since I was five years old and thankfully it hasn't got me into too much trouble.

The two years I spent solely writing for other people kind of took me away from myself.

I realized that I wanted a Rhodes Scholarship, not because I wanted to go to graduate school but because I wanted to win a famous award. Quitting forced me to realize I was on the wrong track and that I had lost touch with who I was and what I cared about.

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

I was very frightened when I turned forty. I suddenly thought I ought to wake up and be speaking with the voice of God.

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 understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

I’m pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.

I thought I had to be perfect. I would often make choices I thought would make everyone else happy. I lived at a pace that was "good for my career," whether it was good for me or not. I have learned how important it is to check in with myself and listen, really listen.

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

A question that I can't answer is: what do you want to do next? What's your dream role? What are you really looking to do? Where do you see yourself? It doesn't make any sense because that's such an outsider's perspective.