Jim Root Quotes

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

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

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

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.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

Oh my god what am I doing with my life?

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

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

I don't want to be lofty when I say this, but I don't know what a success is any more. I know how we define it, but that was a moment where I went, "Wait, who am I?" You could feel the business, in particular, kind of go "He's all right, let's go over here." I started to go, "Wait, I know why I love to do this." I think I got off track in why I love to do it.

Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

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.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.