Quotes About Individuality

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

my life is enough to depress the entire universe but I'm the only one living it

You really can't go through life wanting to be liked. It's the hardest lesson to learn. Once you say, "Fuck it, I don't care," once you've got that attitude, then it's easy to relax, to talk, laugh, cry, whatever.

One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites.

There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with a surprise inside.

So here is where I am so far, and this is all I know: the world is a big sardine can, and some of us are too agreeable for words. Most of us, really.

Well, she had her own sorry self, her own story, the snowflake of her life, but even as a child she had been unimpressed by the breathless adult observation that no two of these were exactly alike. In the first place, she had thought, how does anybody know that? And in the second place, so what?

Only in art were there cliches; never in nature. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with surprise inside.

I've traveled far and wide, always alone, so therefore I've never been in Cahoots.

It feels weird right at this moment to not be anybody's sidekick. Hard to explain, but when I look at the moon, it seems like it's paying attention to me, instead of me paying attention to it. It's way up there now. Hi, moon, I say silently to it. Yes, I'm high, it says back. The moon has a sense of humor.

To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.

Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose. To the question of your life, You are the only answer. To the problems of your life, You are the only solution.

I don't think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It's not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It's not just being outside when they're all inside. I used to be inside. I think there's a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they're happening which isn't normal.

I would rather have Sign of the Unicorn than all the boys in the valleys.

You feel what you feel, and I feel what I feel, but that doesn't mean you have to fit us into a story and wreck both our lives.

What I mean is, when I look at other people, other girls in school, and see what they like and what they're happy with and what they want, I don't feel as if I'm a part of their species. And sometimes--sometimes I don't care.

That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes?

Everyone had their own internal life and their own soul, and they were entitled to make their own choices.

I can't talk about my childhood at all, because cannot say "I" when I mean "we," and if I say "we" it leads to a conversation about how I have a dead sister, instead of what I want to talk about. I found that out in the summer. So I don't talk about it.

I still don't know if you understand!" "That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes? Oh yes, I'm coming to understand that really well." I

1 tatty old man in jeans—what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people.

There's nothing less exciting than being thought of as part of a class of beings that are all the same," I said. "You're treating me as a thing.

Enfim, cada um o que quer aprova, o senhor sabe: pão ou pães, é questão de opiniães… O sertão está em toda a parte.

O senhor saiba: eu toda a minha vida pensei por mim, forro, sou nascido diferente. Eu sou é eu mesmo. Divêrjo de todo o mundo... Eu quase que nada não sei. Mas desconfio de muita coisa.