Quotes About Individuality

No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas.

Who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read. . . . Each life is an encyclopedia, a library.

Solo essendo così spietatamente se stesso come fu fino alla morte, poteva dare qualcosa a tutti gli uomini.

Life is neither good nor bad; it is original.

Egli sapeva che del viaggio poco si ricorda. Passano fisionomie e s'accumulano confuse in un cantuccio della memoria, diventando collettività, nazioni, sessi, mai individui. Come nel sogno, ch'era tanto difficile da ricordare, perché piombava dalla notte oscura in un lapo di magnesio in cui s'agitavano cose e persone.

Birine ruh yap?s?n?n ne biçim olduÄŸunu aç?klamak, dilediÄŸi gibi davranmas?na izin vermenin bir yoludur.

Every one is right in there mind.

I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were others like me.

You don't have to look a certain way to be a tomboy. Don't let anyone tell you that, ever, and please don't find that here in my words. Tomboy thrums in your heart. It's in your head. It's what is holding your spine in place. It can't be hidden by a haircut. It's not about nail polish or not. It's running right now in your veins. If it is in you, you already know. Tomboy blood is so much bigger than the outside of you.

If being a man is something that required a person to tick off a bunch of boxes, not many people would make it through.

She worries because she fears what the world might do to you, and because she doesn't know any successful tattooed butch storytellers with biceps and a brush cut. Yet.

Man's consciously lived fragility, individuality and relatedness make the experience of pain, of sickness and of death an integral part of his life. The ability to cope with this trio autonomously is fundamental to his health. As he becomes dependent on the management of his intimacy, he renounces his autonomy and his health must decline.

Ne mogu ja - kaže - dobri ?ovje?e, ozdraviti, jer ja i nisam bolestan, nego sam ovakav, a od sebe se ne može ozdraviti.

Your taste in books says more about you than any other single object in your house. It reflects your interest, your intelligence, your sophistication, your humour…

as if I'd said I wanted to sell cheese sandwiches outside Grateful Dead concerts...

From the structure of language comes the explanation of why the human spirit is condemned to an odyssey - why it first finds its way to itself only on a detour via a complete externalization in other things and in other humans. Only at the greatest distance from itself does it become conscious of itself in its irreplaceable singularity as an individuated being.

The same Christ Jesus is not the same for everyone, because people are different. He has one profile for the poor and another for the rich, one profile for the sick and another for the healthy.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting.

Whatever the national or world scene and whatever the economy or the tide of war and peace, each of us has to live out our own lives.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.