Quotes About Being A Unique Individual

#1. In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

Nora Raleigh Baskin

#2. Father looked at her and she was beautiful in the way she had been as a girl. He did not realize the pleasure he felt in having made her cry.

E.L. Doctorow

#3. I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Noel Coward

#4. The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease.

Oliver Sacks

#5. It's just kind of a big deal, is all."
"Well, I'm kind of a big deal."
A smile spread across his face. "I can see that.

Gina Damico

#6. Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most.

Kevin James Breaux

#7. There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself.

Fennel Hudson

#8. In Paris explanations come in a predictable sequence, no matter what is being explained. First comes the explanation in terms of the unique, romantic individual, then the explanation in terms of ideological absolutes, and then the explanation in terms of the futility of all explanation.

Adam Gopnik

#9. As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

Alan Watts

#10. From shoes that are a size too small to a dress that doesn't fit quite right, there are incredible pieces in most wardrobes that have never been worn.

Brad Goreski

#11. This privilege, which he alone possesses, of being a sovereign and unique subject amidst a universe of objects, is what he shares with all his fellow-men. In turn an object for others, he is nothing more than an individual in the collectivity on which he depends.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Gloria Steinem

#13. This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.

Bede Griffiths

#14. Everyone tells us to be one in a million ... What they don't tell us is that being one in a million also means being one against a million.

Saahil Prem

#15. There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts tot the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art.

Jean Dubuffet

#16. I daresay that your son or daughter has been sent as an answer to someone's cry and that the enemy sees the greatness and the deliverer in him or her and is trying to prevent them from entering the world.

Theresa Pecku-Laryea

#17. Being unique is what's cool man. Being normal? What's that? That's a setting on a washing machine. Nobody wants to be that.

Ashley Purdy

#18. By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.

Josiah Royce

#19. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

Oliver Sacks

#20. The greatest misery in adverse fortune is once to have been happy.

Boethius

#21. Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of the human condition that makes each individual unique, and something over which we have no control. We are who we are in the deepest recesses of our minds, hearts and identities.

Linda Thompson

#22. I adore being hitched. It's so extraordinary to discover one unique individual you need to irritate for whatever remains of your life.

Rita Rudner

#23. Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross