Quotes About Individuality

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

Everybody has their story to tell.

Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.

Everybody is becoming [a superhero]. In the past I've tried to say, 'Look, we are all crappy superheroes,' because personal computers and mobile phone devices are things that only Bat Man and Mr Fantastic would have owned back in the sixties. We've all got this immense power and we're still sat at home watching pornography and buying scratch cards. We're rubbish, even though we are as gods.

For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise...and step into the shadow now without complaint. -Rorschach

Okay. There it is. I dressed up. As an owl. And fought crime. Perhaps you begin to see why I half expect this summary of my career to raise more laughs than poor cuckolded Moe Vernon with his foam teats and his Wagner could ever hoped to have done.

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what's important, not popular.

They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

In this world, you shouldn't rely on help from anybody. In the end, a man stands alone.

Or there's Alex Crowley , tiresomely attempting to persuade his school-chums to refer to him as Shelley's Alastor , like some self-conscious Goth from Nottingham called Dave insisting that his vampire name is Armand .

He pondered long over this, for might not another man, returning to another valley, have found none of these things? Why was it given to one man to have his pain transmuted into gladness? Why was it given to one man to have such an awareness of God?

You shouldn't feel guilty about enjoying something that other people don't. Well, apart from torture, but that's probably the only exception

What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?

That's two years of me living for someone else. How sad is that?

The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.

Then why put labels on ourselves? That's a job for a psychiatrist. We punch people, Valkyrie. That's who we are. Embrace your inner lunatic. Fun times guaranteed.

People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

successful creations grow most predictably when they tap into a small network of people who do not see themselves as mainstream, but rather bound by an idea or commonality that they consider special. People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

There is the buried language and there is the individual vocabulary, and the process of poetry is one of excavation and of self-discovery. Tonally the individual voice is a dialect; it shapes its own accent, its own vocabulary and melody in defiance of an imperial concept of language, the language of Ozymandias, libraries and dictionaries, law courts and critics, and churches, universities, political dogma, the diction of institutions. Poetry is an island that breaks away from the main.

Der größte Fehler ist der, einen Mann ausschließlich als einen Mann zu behandeln oder eine Frau nur als eine Frau, denn sie alle haben Zugang zu vielen Rollen...

If you do grow up feeling as though you don't quite fit in as a child, it's very easy to decide you're certain not going to fit in as an adult. You hang on to your eccentricities and hate the idea of conforming. It's a common pattern.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realise how seldom they do.

One area which shows how unknowingly predictable we are, is the way we decorate our houses. We all feel we make unique and distinct choices, yet we all conform to a cultural standard.

Fingers: Weve all got them and we shouldnt be embarrassed about them.