Quotes About Individuality

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

We're all a rum lot, bor . . . there i'nt much t'chewse atween us,' he replied.

The woman, early thirties with frosted brown hair,

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way that they have been told to.

Loners probably experience life at a more profound level than the self-consciously gregarious who know nothing of individuality, or who lack the courage to go their own way.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not.

items that have become part of me, foliage that has grown to conceal the bare stem of my real personality, what I was like before I ever saw these books, or any book at all, come to that.

Because when on a raw and frosty morning I get up at five o'clock and stand shivering my belly off on the stone floor and all the rest still have another hour to snooze before the bells go, I slink downstairs through all the corridors to the big outside door with a permit running-card in my fist, I feel like the first and last man in the world, both at once, if you can believe what I'm trying to say.

An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

If you really want to spend some years in a Japanese monastery, there is no earthly reason why you shouldn't. Or if you want to spend your time hopping freight cars and digging Charlie Parker, it's a free country.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

I'm afraid you'll have to take up art. Art is the only work open to people who can't get along with others and still want to be special.

Edward Casey, a professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University, argues that "the encroachment of an indifferent sameness-of-place on a global scale" is eating away at our sense of self and "makes the human subject long for a diversity of places.

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.