Margaret Atwood Quotes

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

Somebody who is unique - and this will get me into trouble - by definition cannot be replaced.

If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78

I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

Everyone is unique and each experience is different.

Every person is unique.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

When I die there is nobody to take my place.

Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

One thing I realised was that everyone is different. You can't compare two human beings.

I am not like any other singer in America - I am a new creation.

There is only one Kishore Kumar, he was exceptional. No one can ever be like him.

No one can replace Amanda Tapping.

I am different. Let this not upset you

Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being.

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.

I cannot classify the other, for the other is, precisely, Unique, the singular Image which has miraculously come to correspond to the speciality of my desire. The other is the figure of my truth, and cannot be imprisoned in any stereotype (which is the truth of others).

The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.

True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their lives searching for kindred spirits and a compatible mate. They are hopelessly out of step with the business world and its trivial urgencies. Their priorities are not the priorities of their neighbors. They are unique; therefore they are alone.