--- title: "3 Conformity Quotes By Paula Sharp" description: "3 Conformity quotes by Paula Sharp. Plus more from Paula Sharp and more Conformity sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/paula-sharp-64326_bad-person_being-strange-is-not-necessarily-bad-som_666290.png" --- > [Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-sharp/being-strange-is-not-necessarily-bad-sometimes-it-s-a-person-s-only/) [Paula Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-sharp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/paula-sharp-64326_bad-person_being-strange-is-not-necessarily-bad-som_666290.png) > [... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-sharp/although-many-people-say-it-is-a-terrible-onus-to-be-labeled-bad-as-a/) [Paula Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-sharp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/paula-sharp-64326_accepting_although-many-people-say-it-is-a-terribl_1679902.jpg) > [Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-sharp/isolation-and-belonging-are-not-absolute-provable-states-of-being/) [Paula Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-sharp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/paula-sharp-64326_absolutes_isolation-and-belonging-are-not-absolute_3098275.png) ## Other authors on Conformity - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 28 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/henry-david-thoreau/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 27 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [Mokokoma Mokhonoana 15 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/mokokoma-mokhonoana/) - [Aristotle 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-rumi-81702.jpg) Rumi 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/rumi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jeremy-limn-48923.jpg) Jeremy Limn 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/jeremy-limn/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-orwell-37887.jpg) George Orwell 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/george-orwell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/friedrich-nietzsche/) ## More by Paula Sharp > [Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-sharp/not-since-lord-of-the-flies-has-a-novelist-written-with-such/) [Paula Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-sharp/) > [Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-sharp/being-strange-is-not-necessarily-bad-sometimes-it-s-a-person-s-only/) [Paula Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-sharp/) > [... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-sharp/although-many-people-say-it-is-a-terrible-onus-to-be-labeled-bad-as-a/) [Paula Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-sharp/) > [Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-sharp/rage-keeps-the-person-who-feels-it-company-it-moves-into-the-hollows/) [Paula Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-sharp/) > [Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paula-sharp/isolation-and-belonging-are-not-absolute-provable-states-of-being/) [Paula Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paula-sharp/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/paula-sharp/#itemlist", "name": "3 Conformity Quotes By Paula Sharp", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Being strange is not necessarily bad ... 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