Individuality Quotes

The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. Merging with nothingness is peaceful oblivion; but to be aware of existence and yet to know that one is no longer a definite being distinguished from other beings—that one no longer has a self—that is the nameless summit of agony and dread.

"They are saying in the Flock that if you are not the Son of the Great Gull Himself, <...> then you are a thousand years ahead of your time."
Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

I shouldn't have called them characters to start with. They're individualists. They've grown up in a free and easy atmosphere. They've not been forced to conform to a group of rigid concepts and so they've been themselves. Perhaps the only truly unfettered human beings who still exist today can be found in little villages like this.

Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.

I have met men in jail with style. I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.