Unpopularity Quotes

“Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.”
― Stevie Smith, Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

“To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap.”
― Jennifer Ziegler, How Not to Be Popular

“Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all i do is to rest on my couch because i have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Truth will only make you unpopular.”
― Wolfgang Borchert

“He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident businessman into which he had grown. His face now brought back the days when one used to watch him plodding off through the drizzle to undertake the long, solitary runs across the dismal fields beyond the sewage farms: runs which were to train him for teams in which he was never included.”
― Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly's

“Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“This whole, crazy fucking business can be reduced to one little word, one word explains it all. I'm going to give you the benefit of my experience and share that word with you, buck. It's revenge.... Them studio execs, agents, producers, they're all sweaty, unpopular, bitter little fucks, and now it's their turn. They get to make all of us golden boys and girls jump through hoops. They decide who's popular and who isn't, who's pretty and who isn't, who gets their phone calls returned and who doesn't. They make us grovel, submit, suck up to them. They're getting back at us, man. It means more to them than the money, the fame, the glamor, having power over guys like me.... It's what they live for.”
― David Handler, The Boy Who Never Grew Up

“Unpopularity is my thing. I revel in it.”
― Brynna Gabrielson, Starkissed

“The thing is, if you're an ugly goon when you're 15, you're an ugly goon for the rest of your life — until the day you die. You're always a goon, even if lots of years go by, even if you get married and have a kid, even if you're more successful than you ever thought you'd be in your wildest dreams. You're still that same goon who everybody laughed at. It never changes.”
― David Handler, The Boy Who Never Grew Up

“A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Being in the minority is not necessarily testimony to the futility of an ideal.”
― Murry Bookchin