Specialness Quotes

“I'm just Phil from Rossendale. And now people are screaming for me 'cause I make YouTube videos - it's just crazy!”
― Phil Lester

“I don't think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings

“Some people are special because they're princes or princesses; or queens or kings! Some are special because they're presidents and senators; or because you can watch them on film! But what is the stuff that makes any person special? That makes any person more special than the world and everything in it? That would be love. Once you love someone? They're special, they're important. You make them important, it's your love that makes them more important than the whole world and everything in it! And guess what? That kind of important is real.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...alone. On their own. Undecided. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.”
― Rachel Caine, Fall of Night

“Brightly burning passion is the releasing of your essence, your specialness and your gifts to the world.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“He shakes his head. "They're hunting the Enkis. I know that. And I get that. But . . . we're special."

"The reason they want them is because they're special. Anchovies aren't going to cure anyone."

"That's not the special I mean." He catches another fish and hugs it to his chest.

I'm trying to be gentle. "They're only special to you because they're yours."

"I could say the same thing about that cute kid you were holding."

Well, shit.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Teeth

“Because I just don't really care about what the liquid in my glass says about me anymore. I'd like to tell you it's because sobriety cured my need for specialness. I'd like to tell you I invented the stapler and can start fires with my mind. But no.”
― Kristi Coulter, Nothing Good Can Come from This

“Everyone is special. No one is excluded when it comes to this.”
― Mekiah Johnson

“Meet actual famous trans writer. Feel indicted when famous trans writer says that they think all trans people want to be celebrities. That the drive to celebrity is an endemic problem that fractures trans communities. That we are all so alone for so long, the only way to survive is to nurture a private sense of specialness and uniqueness—all the while fearing that this sense of specialness is our only lifejacket as we swim in a culture where tokenization tells us that we must be the only one, the fiercest, most brutal one, the special one.”
― Torrey Peters, How to Become a Really Really Not Famous Trans Lady Writer

“I ain't ever felt special my whole life."

"What did you feel?"

"Hard to explain. Felt like the opposite of special. Like a big black void moving through the world. Empty, if not for all the people trying to fill it with their own judgments on me."

"The thing about voids, Charlie Brunton, is ain't nothing inside of them but light they can't figure out how to free.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

“Your specialness is because you are who you are. Here is the truth: there is nothing you can do to alter that. It is a matter of personal significance that this life has been granted to you.”
― Laurie Seymour, Unconditional Remembrance: Your Connection to Source

“Frankie swam up suddenly from inside herself.

“Oh, you kids,” she said in a soggy, muffled sort of way. We couldn’t see any marks on her face. Her arms dangled on either side of her chair. “I hope you know how special you are.”

We nodded. Our parents and the TV told us on the regular.”
― Krystelle Bamford, Idle Grounds