Quotes About Individuality

Nous sommes bien davantage que la somme des parties qui nous composent,

I am Edema Ruh to my bones. That means my blood is red. It means I breathe the free air and walk where my feet take me. I do not cringe and fawn like a dog at a man's title. That looks like pride to people who have spent their lives cultivating supple spines.

It's as if Tempi brought home a dog that can whistle. The fact that you are out of tune stands quite beside the point." Vashet

Somos mais do que as partes que nos formam

If whatever you're going to do is wrong, you might as well do whatever you want.

Auri's heart beat faster then. It had been ages since she'd come on somewhere wholly new. A place that dared to be entirely itself.

Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.

My name is Kvothe, pronounced nearly the same as "Quothe." Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I've had more names than anyone has a right to.

Think what you want about making babies. Believe in demons. Pray to a goat. So long as it doesn't bruise me, why should I bother myself?

This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to

She started to turn her face to me, then stopped and looked down again. "It's quite a thing," she said. "There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I've had more names than anyone has a right to.

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

Until now he had thought that it was the world in general he had wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it.

As he began to withdraw from them, it became clear to Grenouille for the first time that for eighteen years their compacted human effluvium had oppressed him like air heavy with an imminent thunderstorm. Until now he had thought that it was the world in general he had wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it. You could live, so it seemed, in this world, in this world devoid of humanity. On

Besides which, he was a man who did not let his decisions be made for him by other people, not by a crowd thrown into panic, and certainly not by some anonymous piece of criminal trash.

Être soi-même un gros alambic qui inonderait le monde des parfums qu'il aurait créés seul, tel était le rêve fou auquel s'abandonnait Grenouille.

He was in very truth his own God, and a more splendid God than the God that stank of incense and was quartered in churches.

But if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city--even if it was just the door to a shared toilet--if this one, most essential freedom was taken from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

Hex had forgone his dark blue trenchcoat in favor of a short, black leather jacket. He was wearing a t-shirt that said "I saved the Earth and all I got was this lousy t-shirt." Hex

It didn't matter that everyone else seemed to be doing it. To butcher a cliche, if everyone jumped off a bridge, they would all get wet. And some were going to drown. Or

Jeanie's the type who is only wearing black until they come up with something darker.