Quotes About Nonconformity

Never forget," a Stranger said to me once in the lobby of the Midland Hotel in Manchester, "that only dead fish swim with the stream.

I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting.

It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

Je n'appartient pas à un système, j'ai toujours lutté contre ça. Je vois les gens que j'aime, je vais là où je veux aller, je lis un livre parce qu'il m'attire et non parce qu'il faut absolument l'avoir lu et toute ma vie est comme cela.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

Kiva considered that she might be developing a thing for Fundapellonan, which on one hand would be a very not-Kiva thing to do, but on the other hand who gave a fuck if it was "not-Kiva," because she wasn't some fucking fictional character destined to do whatever some goddamn hack wanted her to do.

Go out in the world and fuck it up beautifully.

First of all, accept that something is wrong with you. It's a good start. Something has always been wrong with me, too. We're in a club of sorts, the lunatic fringe who are proud to band together. There's a joyous road to ruin out there, and if you let me be your garbage guru, I'll teach you how to succeed in insanity and take control of your low self-esteem. Personality disorders are a terrible thing to waste.

It wasn't until I started reading ... that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else

I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do.

Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.

As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish I know I'm doing just fine.

Yes, but I am not human and to expect me to live by your rules or values is unrealistic. For my kind, I am quite altruistic." Tyler Jones/Dhavenbahtek to Thulu and La Fi.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

Don't be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.