Libba Bray Quotes

We spend so much of our early lives trying to figure out who we really are. And we spend the rest of our lives preparing ourselves to let it go.

She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

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.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

We must at times search our own souls and discover what we really are. Our real character, much as we would wish, cannot be hidden.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this.

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

The real religion is not imitation of anybody else, it is a search to find out your own authentic self, who you are.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.