Russell Hoban Quotes

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I am a private human.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

Most people are other people.

Unless you drop your personality you will not be able to find your individuality. Individuality is given by existence; personality is imposed by the society.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

There is only one me.

I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

I believe that every person has uniqueness - something that nobody else has.

Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.

How could I have been anyone other than me?

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

Get to know the real you, rather than try to look like or dress like those around you.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

What I would tell everyone is don't lose your sense of individuality.

What people think is their individual nature is just a bundle of thoughts, emotions, ideas, opinions, and prejudices. The world can do without this individuality.

I'm grateful for my own head and for all the weird things in it.

I want people to see me as my own person.

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.

Everybody is in a hurry to decode you in a certain way, and then they expect you to adhere to their definition. How can they possibly do that when you yourself are finding it hard to discover yourself?

My self encompasses a lot of different things.