In dreams, you vaguely recall the power and freedom that was yours. Chained to the will of Koba, yours is a half-conscious existence where sleep offers the only release. You no longer think of escaping, and have given in to the identity of a chained circus bear. A spark in you remembers, however, and if it is ever properly fanned, the flame of your rage would consume your tormentors.
— Roleplaying notes for Dimitri Babinov, Midnight Circus
"I don't know who I am. I am always living as someone else for my assignments. I don't remember what my face looks like ... or even what my personality was like. My face, memories, personality, beliefs, emotions, and soul ... I left them all behind. I have no ... 'self'. I am no one. I am nothing but an endless abyss."
— The Phantom, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies
"See, there's the thing. I'm the Doctor, but beyond that, I just don't know. I literally do not know who I am. It's all untested. Am I funny? Am I sarcastic? Sexy? Right old misery? Life and soul? Right-handed? Left-handed? A gambler? A fighter? A coward? A traitor, a liar, a nervous wreck? I mean, judging by the evidence, I've certainly got a gob!"
— The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Christmas Invasion"
"Right now, I'm a stranger to myself! There's echoes of who I was, and a sort of... call towards who I am. And I have to hold my nerve and trust all these new instincts. Shape myself towards them."
— The Thirteenth Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Woman Who Fell To Earth"
"Spiritual transfiguration, do you know what that means? It means having everything that you ever were stripped away, bars of light, too intense to look upon. Homogeneity incarnate. Can you imagine that? That's what the Heavenly Host is, countless thousands of bars of light, souls burning, all the same. Your personality lost forever. Immortal souls, hah! It's the final death. Sacrificed to a mania for order. Lambs to the slaughter."
— Johannes Cabal on Heaven, Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
"I was a human who became an oni. I used to be an oni. Losing my arm meant I couldn't go back to being one. And right now... I don't even know what I am. Understand? I was using you to get back to my old self."
— Kasen, Suikakasen
Julia: Look, I forget how things work sometimes. All right? Or not so much how by why. Why people say hello, why they take baths, why they wear clothes, read books, smile, talk, eat. All those human things.
Quentin: I don't understand this, Julia. Help me understand. You're human. Why would you forget that? How would you?
Julia: I don't know. I'm losing it. It's losing me. It's going away.
Quentin: I don't understand this, Julia. Help me understand. You're human. Why would you forget that? How would you?
Julia: I don't know. I'm losing it. It's losing me. It's going away.
"Wait a minute, who am I here?"
— The Stepfather, The Stepfather
