Max Stirner Quotes

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

I've known both misery and happiness, lived in so many different skins it is impossible for one skin to claim me. And I have felt like a wayfarer on an alien planet at times - walking, running, wondering about what brought me to this particular place, and why. But once I was here the dreams started moving in, and I went about devouring them as they devoured me.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I'm just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe.

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

My whole life has been a search for finding myself, pretty much.

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

Like most people in college, I just wasn't really sure who I was.

I think, no matter who you are, at some point in your life you've probably said, 'OK, well, who am I, and where do I fit in?'

Every human being goes through a period of time in their life where they feel like they've lost who they are, and they're trying to figure out who they are and what they want to be.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.

Everyone goes through that time in their life when they're trying to figure out who they are, find their own purpose and their own way.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

How do you tell somebody how to find what they're looking for when ten years ago you came from the same place, and have yet to find it yourself?

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.