Non Conformity Quotes

104 quotes by 86 authors

We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished ... — Lydia Millet
... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited. — Shirley Brice Heath
How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? — Saul Bellow
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. — Edward R. Murrow
In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you… — Philip O Ceallaigh
I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the surface that everybody… — Philip O Ceallaigh
A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer. — Roseanne Barr
I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with.… — Peter HÃ¸eg
My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. — Stockard Channing
There are a lot of things in this world that are more important than being popular. Being true to yourself is one of them. — Michael Landon
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown… — Giorgos Seferis
He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently. — Alan Cumming
Do others, I wondered, "see things as I do? I do not think so, for if they did they would not still be alive." And,… — Nancy Mairs
... he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass[es]. — Shang Yang
Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those… — Alice Sebold
Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a… — Lydia M. Child
I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some defect, you make… — Audrey Tautou
To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers,… — Toller Cranston
Being strange is not necessarily bad ... Sometimes it's a person's only redeeming quality. — Paula Sharp
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

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