Quotes About Not Fitting In With Society

#1. Never laugh at the man that asks 'stupid' questions. Just remember, when all of society thought the world was flat, a man once questioned, What if the world was round?

Jeremy Smith

#2. I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it.

Sonia Sotomayor

#3. The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.

Pope John XXIII

#4. I ran for myself, not Finland.

Paavo Nurmi

#5. Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

Virginia Woolf

#6. If most people owned up to their own insanity maybe the rest of the world would be diagnosed with sanity and we would lock them up for not fitting into our society.

Thatcher C. Nalley

#7. In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#8. Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

John Stuart Mill

#9. When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.

Leonardo Boff

#10. The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

Elliott Abrams

#11. But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times
when the odds were so high against personal happiness
to find love was miraculous, and to fulfill it as best two people could was what really mattered.

Bernard Malamud

#12. At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important. In other words, it's never been more impossible to 'fit in,' yet 'fitting in' has never been more important and valued

Brene Brown

#13. Honestly, if you don't fit in then you're probably doing the right thing.

Lights Poxlietner

#14. I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is.

Gore Vidal

#15. No, no. We can kill each other later.

Julie Kagawa

#16. Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value.

Scott Adams

#17. I think my music's kind of cold, but I don't know if it's related to the weather. It might be because it's always grey [in Montreal], it's very depressing.

Grimes

#18. Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.

Dan Millman

#19. One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Robert Musil