Conformity Quotes

489 quotes by 380 authors

He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care… — Dean Koontz
You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a… — Jaleel White
Each one of us has to be what he or she is. — Kurt Vonnegut
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that ...… — Mary McCarthy
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am… — Oscar Wilde
One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere… — Elisabeth Moss
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am… — Pablo Neruda
Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who… — Pablo Neruda
Our real journey in life is interior. — Thomas Merton
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part… — Diane Ackerman
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full… — Doris Grumbach
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it. — Djuna Barnes
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet… — Unknown Author
There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies. — Unknown Author
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what… — Unknown Author
To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me." — Simon Boswell
... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the… — Hallgrimur Helgason
I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think… — Jane Smiley
In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life. — Abdellatif Laabi
You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self. — Unknown Author

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