“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”

“I am Nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.”

Dandi Daley Mackall American writer

“Nobody can teach me who I am.”

Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic

“I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.”

Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic

“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”

Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I am a sensitive artist. Nobody understands me because I am so deep. In my work, I make allusions to books that nobody else has read, music that nobody else has heard, and art that nobody else has seen. I can't help it, because I am so much more intelligent and well-rounded than everyone who surrounds me.”

John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer

“I am Bhole Baba (Simple Father). I am nobody and nothing. I am only like a mirror in which you can see yourself. I am like a fire. Don’t keep too far away or you will not get warmth. But don’t get too near or you may burn yourself. Learn the right distance. My name is Maha Prabhuji”

Haidakhan Babaji teacher in northern India

“Who are you? Nobody. Who is Porridge? THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON THERE IS.”

Clive Staples Lewis book Surprised by Joy