Wallace Stevens Quotes

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is so unique.

Every human being is special because they all have identities.

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

The personality is defined by its inconsistencies, not its consistencies. It's what makes us unique and who we are.

I'm me and you're you, and all of them out there are them. And we're all so different and equally unimportant.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

There is never only one, of anyone

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.

Every person is unique.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

I am just one human being.

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

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

I've never met anybody in this world like me.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.