Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't. — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not… — Jaleel White Copy Share Image
“She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot… — David Whitehouse Copy Share Image
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate… — Henry James Copy Share Image
... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
“No one knows, at sight a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. Likewise a friend of Bloughram's… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to… — Toller Cranston Copy Share Image
... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I… — Shirley Brice Heath Copy Share Image
One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
"What the hell'd you let them break your spirit for?" You know, their lives ran in circles so small. Ah, they thought… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“ROBERT ROTH: Going against the tide, no matter how gracefully, will beat you up after a while — all artists know this.” — Greg Prato Copy Share Image
Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their… — Paula Sharp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
