How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change... — Hans Hartung Copy Share Image
In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life. — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime… — Jenna Miscavige Hill Copy Share Image
I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
“I mistook non-conformity for freedom and in so doing found myself anything but free. For it is in conformity to one's true… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here… — Sue Fitzmaurice Copy Share Image
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interests or outlook on life. Unless… — Alexandra Robbins Copy Share Image
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
“Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality. — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!' — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ... — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art. — Gene Black Copy Share Image
My surface is myself. Under which to witness, youth is buried. Roots? Everybody has roots. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well. — Shuntaro Tanikawa Copy Share Image
