49 Quotes About Being a Misfit

There are certain advantages to being a misft in life. These quotes about being a misfit will reassure you that even a little trouble doesn’t mean all is bad.

“A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.”

“All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.”

“And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.”

“And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons.”

“Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.”

“Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable as a member of a crowd, he is at once a blockhead.”

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him.”

“Blessed are the weird people – poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters & troubadours – for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”

“Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.”

“Everything in the universe has a purpose. There are no misfits, there are no freaks, there are no accidents. There are only things we don’t understand.”

“There’s nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you’re going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What’s wrong with liking yourself the way you are?”

“I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.”

“I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That’s exciting for me.”

“I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?”

“I was told about ‘Misfits’ when we were in prep for ‘Chronicle’, and I wanted to watch it badly because I’m a fan of that kind of stuff. But I stopped myself because I was very careful about not getting too much contemporary influence.”

“If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it ‘focused.'”

“If there’s going to be another Misfits record, I’d probably have to write the stuff.”

“If you’re a misfit and feel out of place, or you don’t like how you look it’s okay cause someone will, but you need to love yourself.”

“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”

“It wasn’t simply his choosing to be alone that kept him that way; it was almost a condition of his existence. The feeling that he was an outsider had always been there.”

“It’s time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.”

“I’ve always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.”

“I’ve always identified with the misfits.”

“Look at all the Misfits products that came out. We never made a dime off it.”

“Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.”

“Misfits deal with the double-edged reality of having our differences act as the source of both our challenges as well as our successes.”

“Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.”

“My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.”

“My image is dark and sombre. It fits my personality. The problem I always had with the people in the Misfits was that it was a put-on. You wouldn’t see those guys walking around like that.”

“No matter how”normal” people look, living”ordinary” lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too.”

“Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.”

“People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.”

“People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.”

“The individualists stare into each other’s eyes and yet deny each other’s existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster’s whim and the purest ideal.”

“The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself.”

“The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.”

“The most interesting people are the unusual.”

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

“The tech industry used to be home to a disproportionate number of misfits and weirdos. Geeks. Nerds. People who needed to know how machines worked: needed to take them apart, make them better, and put them back together again.”

“The ultimate pain is a life that is not authentically one’s own.”

“There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are fewer films, certainly with a lady at the center, about the agony of what it’s like to feel like you’re not accepted, and you’re different, and somehow you’re weird.”

“There is no such thing as a weird human being, It’s just that some people require more understanding than others.”

“To be nobody but yourself in a word which is working night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

“What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.”

“When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.”

“When you feel like an oddball, it never really leaves you. Even now, I’m better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves – the misfits.”

Being a misfit means doesn’t mean you have no reason to be accepted by others.