Quotes About Individuality

Indeed, Nietzsche believed that the only possibility for existence was for each of us to become gods ourselves.

Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

I had to wonder how Ginny could hold her head up under the weight of cosmetics smeared all over her face. Underneath it all, she may have been quite pretty. Or she may have been Dirk Bogarde. I will never know.

Keep on being yourself.

And let the lesson be - to be yersel's, Ye needna fash gin it's to be ocht else. To be yersel's - and to mak' that worth bein' Nae harder job to mortals has been gi'en.

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach... To force myself into a single role, to decide to be just on thing in life, would kill off large parts of me.

When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...

When I was a boy I noticed I didn't have a fortune line on my palm... so I took my father's razor and... zak... I made myself one, just the way I wanted.

Quando ero bambino mi accorsi che non avevo la linea della fortuna sulla mano e allora presi il rasoio di mio padre e zac... Me ne feci una come volevo.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

Teas vary as much in appearance as the different faces of men.

Goethe, the great poet-philosopher, once wrote: "I find more and more that it is well to be on the side of the minority, since it is always the more intelligent.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.