“Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits—we’re all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.”— Willie Nelson, parade.com
“There will always be someone on the outside wanting to get in.”— Stephanie Savage, Gossip Girl, Kristen Bell, imdb.com
“In case you haven’t noticed, I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit in. And I don’t want to fit in.”— Britta Lundin, Brian E. Paterson, Jughead Jones, Cole Sprouse, imdb.com
“And even as we felt none or were robbed of it along the way, we know how to illuminate a path to self-worth based on helping others, based on recognizing that you belong to something besides the violence around you.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“So one kind of misfit is the child who grew up and through one kind of violence or another, and what we have to give is this: We can endure. We know how to breathe differently in a crisis, with calm and presence.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“There is nothing wrong with us. We are the rest of you. We are useful to our culture and more; we have specific skills born of resistance, reinvention, and resilience that are vital to human existence.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“Some of us manage to invent bodies, voices, and lives worth living even though we don’t fit in to the normative socius.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“Misfits transform fear and anger and grief into expression rather than destruction—we give something of value to the rest of culture rather than succumbing to our own misery, particularly when those around us recognize our value. Misfits know how to resist the homogenizing narratives of culture sinc…”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“Misfits are remarkably good at invention, reinvention...We are resilient; we don’t just survive, we invent how to thrive.”— Lidia Yuknavitch, amazon.com
“I am not other people, and we are not other people.”— Julia Brownell, Sarah Cleary, Michelle Monaghan, imdb.com
“If you don’t feel like you belong in this world, it’s because you’re here to help create a new one.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Categories are rarely permanent, and most important work is done by people who don't easily fit in.”— Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.com
“They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.”— John the Evangelist, biblehub.com
“I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he’s hungry and sleep when he’s sleepy.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull midd…”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com