Loss Identity Quotes

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for our annulment of his.

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it.

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.

I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition.

I don't dislike being famous, but there have been moments when you think: 'Is this really worth it?' Sometimes you go through that stage where you're almost like selling your soul. People want all from you, absolutely everything. They want it from you. And everyone's got an opinion about you.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.

We suffer not only as individuals from alienation and confusion over our identities and goals; our entire society, conceived as a single entity, seems unclear about its own nature and sense of direction.

When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.