Quotes About Individuality

So if I'm not normal and you're not normal and they're not normal—why in the blue blazes do we all spend so much time pretending we are?

If you ain't crazy, there's something wrong with you.

If you're not crazy there's something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

I don't believe in adhering to any rules I don't support and I didn't vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you'll be happy.

I believe in looseness.

There is no such thing as a normal person. There is just you and me." - Willie Nelson

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself . . . and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.

Johnny zingt geen liedjes. Johnny is zelf een liedje.

Only by going on an untrod path, by making your own path, by being your singular self, can anyone find his own grail. In

Did Curly have a right, however weak or strong his vision might have been, to keep it secret? To not live it? Did not all the people own the strength in it? *

Sometimes people escape from childhood traumas by splitting into a whole spectrum of different, fully functioning identities, a condition known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). So distinct are these personalities that MPD victims will have not only different handwriting styles, artistic talents, and knowledge of foreign languages, but even different allergies, illnesses, and reactions to drugs, depending upon which personality they are "using" at the moment.

by nature men are alike. Through practice they have become far apart,"3

I'm Short and fat and proud of that!!

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

You were saved because you were the first.You were saved because you were the last.Alone. With others.On the right. On the left.Because it was raining. Because of the shade.Because the day was sunny.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

Four billion people on this earth but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by particularity. It flits in the dark like a flashlight, illuminating only random faces while all the rest go by, never coming to mind and never really missed.

Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.

I placed no trust in faiths, doctrines, ideologies, institutions. Thus I could stand only upon my own feet. But I was a Pole, molded by Polishness, living in Poland. And so I needed to look deeper for my 'self,' in the place where it was no longer Polish but simply human

Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.