Quotes About Individuality

Wherever you turn, you run up against your childhood and hurt yourself because it's sharp-edged and hard, and stops only when it has torn you completely apart. It seems that everyone has their own and each is totally different. My brother's childhood is very noisy, for example, while mine is quiet and furtive and watchful. No one likes it and no one has any use for it.

apám elismer?en mondja, hogy "a Victor Hugó nagyon jó író", fontoskodva kioktatom: Apa rosszul mondja a nevét. Ügónak ejtik. Leszarom, hogy ejtik, mondja apám rezzenéstelenül. Minden nevet úgy kell ejteni, ahogy le van írva. A többi csak felvágás.

My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me against their peculiar meanness toward anyone who is different.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

The main thing in life is to know your own mind.

It was simply that she was only fully alive when she devoted herself to her singular ability to draw, and when she drew she was naturally always alone.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.

Om man är arg så är man arg, konstaterade lilla My och skalade sin potatis med tänderna. Man ska vara arg ibland, vartenda knytt har rätt att vara ilsket.

Before she left, she said, "Just remember one thing: Going along with something doesn't mean you give in to it.[...]

Of course, Moomintrolls don't wear clothes, except sometimes in bed.

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

Du skjønner, det er så mye som ikke for plass om sommeren og høsten og våren", sa hun. "Alle som er litt sjenerte og litt rare. Forskjellige slags nattdyr og folk som ikke passer inn noen steder, og som ingen tror på. De holder seg unna hele året. Og så, når det er helt stille og hvitt og nettene blir lange og alle har gått i hi - da kommer de fram.

og forresten er vel alle og enhver ulykkelig på sin egen måte, og det skulle jeg tro de har rett til!

Minun mielestäni ainoa, joka tästä lähtien voi asua siellä, on Tuu-tikki itse, sanoi Muumipeikon äiti. -Ja sitä paitsi uimahuone on aika porvarillinen laitos. Uimahousut voi aivan yhtä hyvin pukea ylleen rantahiekalla.

How nice to be on your own for a bit and do what you like.

It was a long time before the Snork came back with the wood. "Well, there you are at last," said his sister. "It took quite a time, said the Snork, "because, of course, I had to find pieces that were all exactly the same length." "Is he always so particular?" asked Snufkin. "He was born like that," said the Snork Maiden.

Om je heen komt alles tot rust, elk van ons gaat zijn eigen weg, maar we ontmoetten elkaar weer aan zee bij een kalme zonsondergang.

Jag trur inte att jag helt och hållet är lesbisk... och mitt förhållande til männen er oförandrat.

Du får aldrig ett eget ansikte förrn du lär dig att slåss.

I'm going to sleep outside. I don't want a bed. Beds are stupid.

Hon tvättade varje fönster och ordnade bokhyllan, inte efter författare denhär gången utan alfabetiskt. När det var färdigt kom hon att tänka på ett bättre och personligare system och började ordna böckerna efter sig själv, de hon tyckte mest om på översta hyllan och de värsta längst ner. Hon upptäckte förvånad att det inte fanns en enda hon tyckte om.

Listen," said the Hemulen. "I was born bald on top and really I get along very well.

He said, "It was burning a hole in my pocket. I had to get rid of it, as quickly as possible. I had to buy the most important think I could think of." And he went out and bought a dreadfully tiny bottle of attar of roses. I think he did exactly the right thing. Some people say Uncle Einar is a snob, and I sincerely hope I can develop along the same lines.