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Quotes About Uniqueness

True solitude is to be found in a place that lives a life of its own, but which for you holds no familiar footprint, speaks in no known voice, and where accordingly the stranger is yourself.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Because a character has really a life of his own, marked with his especial characteristics; for which reason he is always "somebody." But a man—I'm not speaking of you now—may very well be "nobody.
~ Luigi Pirandello
We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
I am me and You are You
~ M. Henderson
And to make matters worse, most of us are not even fully aware of our own world views, much less the uniqueness of the experience from which they are derived.
~ M. Scott Peck
Capitu era Capitu isto é uma criatura mui particular mais mulher do que eu era homem.
~ Machado de Assis
Capitu era Capitu, isto é, uma criatura mui particular, mais mulher do que eu era homem. Se ainda o não disse, aí fica. Se disse, fica também. Há conceitos que se devem incutir na alma do leitor, à força de repetição.
~ Machado de Assis
Saí triste. Procurava um homem original e achei um maluco. Os de juízo são todos copiados uns dos outros. Consta-me até que aquele mesmo homem de Plutarco, freguês do Carceller, curado por um hábil médico, está agora tão comum como os outros. Acabou a originalidade com a maluquice.
~ Machado de Assis
Sometimes we have to be left on our own to discover the uniqueness and strength that is ours.
~ Macrina Wiederkehr
Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
No! Alike and equal are not the same thing at all!
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I'm different,and I like being different.Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud. Maybe I don't like being different,Meg said.but I don't want to be like everybody else,either.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
There's nothing the matter with his mind. He just does things in his own way and in his own time.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe I don't like being different, Meg said. but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We're not peculiar. Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you live in a world where not only are your parents not divorced, they appear to love each other
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Majah, minah, and mediocah.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I am a mere unicorn. Gaudior dropped his silver lashes modestly.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Maybe I don't like being different," Meg said, "but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
When have you been most you, the very most you?
~ Madeleine L'Engle
In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Oh, my darling you are not dumb, her father answered. You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Oh, my darling, you're not dumb," her father answered. "You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.
~ Madeleine L'Engle