Quotes About Individuality

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.

It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe

I want to be gone out of myself, and you to be lost to yourself, so we are found different.

I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.—Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

But a democracy is bound in the end to be obscene, for it is composed of myriad disunited fragments, each fragment assuming to itself a false wholeness, a false individuality. Modern democracy is made up of millions of frictional parts all asserting their own wholeness.

Every individual should, by nature, have his extraordinary points. But nowadays, you may look for them with a microscope, they are so worn-down by the regular machine-friction of our average and mechanical days.

Strut' said Ursula. 'One wants to strut, to be a swan among geese

Cause-and-effect will not explain even the individuality of a single dandelion.

special natures you must give a special world.

Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a machine, an instrument, a bosom, a womb, a pair of legs, a servant, an encyclopaedia, an ideal or an obscenity; the one thing he won't accept her as is a human being, a real human being of the feminine sex.

You can't lose yourself, neither in woman nor humanity nor in God. You've always got yourself on your hands in the end: and a very raw and jaded and humiliated and nervous-neurasthenic self it is, too, in the end.

sharp lights, though unseen, mocked it. A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.

From the first instant, Kate respected her for her isolation and her dauntless. The world is made up of a mass of people and a few individuals. Mrs. Norris was one of the few individuals. True, she played her social game all the time. But she was an odd number; and all alone, she could give the even numbers a bad time.

What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.

One must strut, like a swan among geese.

She felt different from the rest of them, with their hard, easy, shallow intimacy, that seemed to cost them so little.

I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside. His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me..