55 Quotes About Misfits

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

Writing has nothing to do with pretty manners, and less to do with sportsmanship or restraint [...]Every writer begins as a subversive, if in nothing more than the antisocial means by which he earns his keep. Finally, every fantasist who cannibalizes himself knows that misfortune is his friend, that grief feeds and sharpens his fancy, that hatred is as sufficient a spur to creation as love (and a world more common) and that without an instinct for lunacy he will come to nothing.

If you don't, can't, or won't understand me, then you're just going to have to trust me

I've always felt that misfits are far more interesting than normal folks.

Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were trapped in dead-end suburbs. They hated high school. Their parents did not understand. They are seeking a better world. And when they realize that the world is wholly a problem, that the whole problem is in them, they make television for other people who are also running, who take voyage in search of a perfect world, then rage at the price of the ticket.

Anything that causes you to change who you are just to fit in is not good for you.

Upon the gifted among the misfits lies the burden of building new worlds.

I’m so tired of it all. I’m tired of not fitting in; of being left out; of being hated. I’m tired of having everything I am ripped up and strewn around the room the way a puppy wrecks an abandoned toilet roll. I’m tired of never doing anything right; of constantly being humiliated; of feeling like I’m just not good enough, no matter what I do. I’m tired of feeling like this. And most of all, I’m tired of being a polar bear, wandering around the rainforest on my own.

You’re… you’re something else, Arlo Jarsdel. But you’re also weird as fuck.