Quotes About Uniqueness

Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.

People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

No one can see your life the way you see it.

I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Bring individuality into things, do not just be an imitator. To imitate is to miss life.

Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

These powers of imagination and creativity are among the few things that set us apart from the rest of life on Earth. But they make all the difference.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.

A life is a life no matter how small

How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.

Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison and Pablo Picasso.

Somebody who's passionate about life and does their own thing.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.