Non conformity Quotes · Page 2

I am myself. That is not enough.

— Sylvia Plath

Resistance is the secret of joy!

— Alice Walker

... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es].

— Shang Yang

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

— Ken Danby

Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.

— Julian Assange

Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

— Rumi

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

— Tim Burton

My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots.

— William Carlos Williams

... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.

— Shuntaro Tanikawa

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

— Gene Black

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

— Henry Miller

“To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to…

— Toller Cranston

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how…

— Frederick Salomon Perls

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are…

— Diane Ackerman

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her…

— Alice Sebold

Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their…

— Paula Sharp

Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my…

— Pablo Neruda

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our…

— Lydia M. Child

... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite…

— Paula Sharp

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.…

— Luis Bunuel

Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as…

— Doris Grumbach

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,…

— Mary McCarthy

“A sprinkling of diners saying, 'We eat, but not amid normal surroundings. We are emancipated from normal sourroundings. It is extremely important…

— Ben Hecht

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely…

— John Stuart Mill

Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still…

— Nancy Mairs

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

— Saul Bellow

You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

— Rumi

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

— Henry Steele Commager

To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

— Simon Boswell

“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?”

— Rachel Carson

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

— Roseanne Barr

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

— Rumi

Non-conformity has always been one of the great British virtues, and that includes non-conformity to things British.

— Howard Jacobson

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

— Stockard Channing

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

— Abdellatif Laabi

One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change...

— Hans Hartung

“I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.”

— Charlotte Eriksson