Quote by Sylvia Plath

“Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.”

— Corey Taylor

“They were all eccentric, touched, ill-intentioned, ignorant, superstitious, avaricious, or full members of nitwitry.”

— Christina Stead

“Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They…

— Lev Grossman

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“What astonishes us most is to observe that everyone is not astonished at his own weakness.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows.”

— Iris Murdoch

“The things about others that irritate, annoy, and unsettle us are the very things we have not accepted and embraced about ourselves”

— R. Alan Woods

“Whether people were great or not, there was not much variety in their inner life experience. Any difference lay merely in how they dealt…

— Eiji Yoshikawa

“And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. If this isn't nice, I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Humans are...extraordinary. It's a shame that we often forget that, and that we treat each other as anything less than the masterpieces we are.”

— Christina Daley

“In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.”

— Nora Raleigh Baskin

“We are all extraordinary individuals. We just have to once again tune into the special-ness of who we are.”

— Alice Hocker