Who Are We Quotes

“So I wish you first a
Sense of theatre; only
Those who love illusion
And know it will go far:
Otherwise we spend our
Lives in a confusion
Of what we say and do with
Who we really are.”
― W.H. Auden

“The best thing is to do the things that make us feel self-confident, that gets us out of our head and most importantly connecting with our true selves and realizing that we're really not this physical body we're temporarily inhabiting.”
― Todd Perelmuter

“If you no longer stare at the sky at nights, it means a very important question is dead in your head: Who are we?”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Our beliefs define us. And who wants to be undefined in today’s world? So we scrape together convenient truths and build our identities out of them.”
― Gina Barreca

“[O]ur confusion about who we are is certainly related to the fact that we consist of a large set of levels, and we use overlapping language to describe ourselves on all of those levels.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid