Quotes About Uniqueness

Descobri a minha estrela. Ela é bela e graciosa. Elegante e divina. O meu riso no inverno. Ela é corajosa e forte. Arrojada e tentadora. Diferente de qualquer outra no universo e não posso tocar-lhe. Nem me atrevo a tentar.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.

Generally I don't like traveling around saying the exact same thing. I don't think that's a very good thing to do with your life.

Following fashion trends, however ridiculous or uncomfortable.

We are all different, and should do what we can do te remain so.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

Everyone's condition is different, and the way that each person lives his or her life is different.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.

My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

Use unlikely materials. Who would choose Pnin as hero, but how did we live before Pnin?

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.