Inauthentic Life Quotes

The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

People forget who they are; they always remain with an identity which is not the real self. It is just a projected self which does not exist, but they identify with this projected self appearance.

For some, the fear of coming out is so great, they can continue to live an inauthentic life. But at a certain point, the pain becomes too much to bear. For me, having one more day pass by where I wasn't living my true self seemed like such a wasted opportunity, such a wasted life.

The problem of pretending to be alive.

It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

I'm predisposed to believe we live in a complicated, enmeshed reality. There's no authentic or organic.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.

When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.