The Confessions of a Misfit Quotes

“Somebody is born.
Somebody goes to school.
Somebody learns to conform.
Somebody types a CV.
Somebody gets a job.
Somebody follows orders.
Somebody gets a golden watch.
And then, eventually,
Somebody dies.
And, a Nobody is buried.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Reality is what people who lack vision see.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Life demands more thinking than remembering.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“When a joker dies, the joke remains.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“School forces unique individuals to think, act, and, look alike.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“A VIP area is nothing without not-so-important people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Fear usually benefits the feared; seldom the fearful.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Self-employment killed the weekend.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“A blank cheque kills creativity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Being yourself is easier than trying to be someone else. The former requires no effort.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Never judge a kid with a kid. For the one that you’re comparing her with might have had an abortion—twice.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly; without first having to lose one’s life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“A genius is a grownup that remained a kid.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“To change the world, one has to ignore its residents.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Man is, today, an end product of what he did, and, what he did not do, yesterday.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“People who wear G-strings suffer from indecision.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit