Individuality Quotes

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an ...

Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they li...

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I gave Henry a supscription [sic] to the Book of the Month club that tells you the book you have to ...

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the wall...

Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good ...

If only you would go to the university," he said. "Only enlightened and holy people are interesting,...

So if you have to live amongst men, you must allow everyone the right to exist in accordance with th...

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehea...

He tried to explain and to convince. He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words...

Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a ne...

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its f...

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men d...

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the l...

You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how compl...

They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of the...

There is another more psychological obstacle to the full development of love in the modern world, an...

Nowadays, ads don't just sell a product. They sell an attitude! Look at this one! Here's a cool guy ...

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like af...

It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived noti...

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if ...

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you wi...

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to min...

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criti...

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no ...

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live...

Nobody else is wearing anything even remotely like it.'Magnus cast a disparaging look around at all ...

and beware those whoonly takeinstructions from theirGodfor they havefailed completely to live their ...

for meobedience to another is the decay of self.for though every being is similareach being is diffe...

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

the worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to...

Don’t you have any concept of individuality?" she asks, annoyed by its presumption at meddling with ...

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off,...

The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respe...

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everyt...

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're a...

I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the...

If you want to be a big success then it becomes a dick showing contest, and that's not what it's abo...

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.

You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place ...

The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as...

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms o...

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of the...

People worried about our passing over into some robotic state, but we were so much like robots alrea...

That's one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing...

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that...

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is sa...

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes ...

I can be a better me than anyone can.

the ballerina on perfected toeSpins to the axis of a fortitudeThat is the sum of all her yesterdays.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting t...

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you...

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. ...

Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel....

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the p...

From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bri...

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ...

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robo...

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it...

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a c...

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I...

Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself...

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim a...

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...

There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people ...

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, m...

In addition to conformity as a way to relieve the anxiety springing from separateness, another facto...

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why shou...

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or real...

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it...

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does n...

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the st...

Knowing one's 'individuality'. - We are too prone to forget that in the eyes of people who are seein...

The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a sol...

How can we “find ourselves” again? How can man “know himself”? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If ...

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of...

I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in tea...

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuc...

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender...

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; f...

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act c...

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humo...