Human Identity

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or identity:

    “Nor blame I Death, because he bare
    The use of virtue out of earth;
    I know transplanted human worth
    Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.

    For this alone on Death I wreak
    The wrath that garners in my heart:
    He put our lives so far apart
    We cannot hear each other speak.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Personal change, growth, development, identity formation—these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events—a job, a mate, a child—through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.”
    —Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)