55 Quotes About Misfits

Misfits … It seems to me that their adventure, more than any other, sheds a light on the future, that they alone allow us to glimpse and to decipher it, and that if we set their exploits aside we utterly disqualify ourselves from describing the days to come.

We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all.  For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else.  Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird.  That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend.  From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions.  From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

They enrolled me in a group for troubled kids. We would meet each week in an old farmhouse owned by the university and talk about our problems getting along. . . . . They didn't teach me to get along, but I did learn that there were plenty of other kids who couldn't get along any better than me. That in itself was encouraging. I realized that I was not the bottom of the barrel. Or if I was, the bottom was roomy because there were a lot of us down there.

When I got back to Marceline, I did not conceal from her how tedious I found all these acquaintances."They are all alike," I said to her. "When I talk to one, I feel as if I were talking to the whole lot.""But, my dear," said Marceline, "you can't expect each of them to be different from the others.""The greater their likeness to each other, the more unlike they are to me.

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

Not bad for a bunch of castoffs and misfits.

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

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.