39 Quotes About Misfit
- Author Stephen J. Day
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I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.
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- Author Catherynne M. Valente
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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.
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- Author Nesrine BENAHMED
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I am but a frangibleMud brick orderedTo build a home in theBig city of humanity;Yet break whenForced to fit.
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- Author Susan Dennard
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Eleanor," Daniel said. "Miss Fitt! Wake up!"I fluttered my eyelids open. "I'm not a misfit anymore," I rasped. "I thought I told you that.
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- Author Emanuel Derman
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Even in the mid-1990s geeks were fair game. One afternoon a colleague and I were standing on either side of one of the narrow aisles between the banks of trading desks on the floor when one of the chief traders walked between us, his head momentarily between ours. At that instant he winced, clutched his head with both hands as though in excruciating pain, and exclaimed, “Aarrggh-hhh! The force field! It’s too intense! Let me out of the way!
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- Author Nikki Rowe
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We all have a soul purpose. I can't be everything that the world needs, even if i dabble between all the crafts that shape me. I can be the expressive queen i am though, crumbling all the comfort zones this world has tried to build around me; to stop the evolution of my spirit. One day i am a calm breeze, the next i am a wild hurricaine - i am so deeply passionate, you'll feel me without a single hello.
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- Author Søren Kierkegaard
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That there may be some who need coercion, who if given free rein would riot in selfish pleasure like unbridled beasts, is no doubt true, but one should show precisely by the fact that one knows how to speak with fear and trembling that one is not of their number.
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- Author Sanhita Baruah
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The same tree has different shades of green;Each leaf is unique, growing on the same twig.Some veins wiggle too much,Some networks- almost a mush.Blossoming buds of the same branchDo not take the same time to grow.Then how do you think you'd fit inIn this strange world, away from home?
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
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