Anonymous Quotes

I've never been much for becoming a member of a group.

In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.

I've never been a follower, but I've been an admirer.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.

Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you're nuts, and you're not as popular with girls as you should be.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.

Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.