“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”

“I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear… And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter."
"I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you."
"Why not me?”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) Suffragist and Women's Rights activist

“What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

“If I have to use an adjective to define myself, then I might use ‘cute’ but I don’t think I’m sexy. If people think that I’m sexy, then I’m happy.”

Drashti Dhami (1985) Indian television actress and model

“The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class, and religion - only the body wears those labels.”

Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition

“Labels are for cans, not people.”

Anthony Rapp (1971) American actor

“I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

“People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

“Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted”

Hanif Kureishi (1954) English playwright, screenwriter, novelist