Quotes about Identity
When the mask of Darth Vader is removed, you see an unformed man, one who has not developed as a human individual. What you see is a strange and pitiful sort of undifferentiated face.
— Joseph Campbell
Where were you born? On a battlefield, [Yossarian] answered. No, no. In what state were you born? In a state of innocence.
— Joseph Heller
You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.' 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger. 'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.
— Joseph Heller
I wonder what kind of person would come out if I ever did erase all my inhibitions at once, what kind of being is bottled up inside me now.
— Joseph Heller
Help him! Help who? Help the bombardier! I'm a bombardier. Help him, help him! Help who?
— Joseph Heller
They couldn't him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Dreirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. He was miracle ingredient Z-247.
— Joseph Heller
At the state university he took his studies so seriously that he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual.
— Joseph Heller
Why couldn't anybody understand that he was not really a freak but a normal, lonely adult trying to lead a normal, lonely adult life?
— Joseph Heller
There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!
— Joyce Meyer
Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.
— Joyce Meyer
If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.
— Joyce Meyer
The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.
— Joyce Meyer