"I always feel uncomfortable when people speak..." - Quote by Joseph Campbell
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.
More by Joseph Campbell
More on Individuality
“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”
“Being a star just means that you just find your own special place and that you shine where you are. To me that's what being a star means.”
“I have been told my eating habits are absolutely bizarre. But I don't think so.”
More on Uniqueness
“If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”
“He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.”
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”