378 Quotes About Labels

If you’re so immature that you’re afraid of being labeled by morons, then check out and we’ll find another artist.

Cornell knew that most people thought he was strange, even creepy. He'd been diagnosed with Asperger's disorder and various forms of autism. Maybe all those diagnoses were correct or maybe none were. His IQ was very high, and he'd made a lot of money while sitting alone in a room, developing apps that had proved enormously popular. When he was rich, no less than when he'd been poor, people thought he was strange, even creepy.

People who label others are just lost souls who refuse to see their own shortcomings.

What if we all jumped out of our boxes and chewed up our stupid labels? Who would we discover?

If there’s anything I’ve learned from polyamory, it’s that the quickest way to destroy a relationship is to try to make it into something it’s not, to force it into a box that it doesn’t really fit in, and to slap labels on something and assume that those labels give the relationship value. No, no, and no. What you end up with is damaged goods in a mislabeled package that end up absolutely where you didn’t want to send the damn thing in the first place.

Labels (of any kind) are simply band-aids people apply to their lives to mask the wounds of their insecurities.

I don't subscribe to labels. Unless I'm labeling other people.

Until he had come up with a name, he was too pathetic to look at -- a real idiot. But now that he had some label like graviconcentrate, he thought that he understood everything and life was a breeze.

Labels can provide a tempting hiding place.