Quotes on “names”

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.