Outcast Quotes

• I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

  Willie Stargell

  Years, Raised, Indian

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• I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

  Meat Loaf

  True Love, Alternatives, Roles

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Outcasts always mourn.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mourn

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Spokes, Touched

  John Ortberg (2009). “Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them”, p.229, Harper Collins

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• Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

  Alice Walker

  Walks

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.137, Ballantine Books

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• Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.

  Hunter Hayes

  Rebel, Different, Hallways

  Song: Invisible Hunter Hayes, Album: Storyline, 2014

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• Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

  Brennan Manning

  Heart, Flesh, Stones

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.51, NavPress

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• The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!

  J. K. Rowling

  Muggles, Wizards, Misfits

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• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

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• I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

  Ethel Waters

  Jobs, Judging, Outsiders

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• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  Quentin Crisp

  Expanding Universe, Addresses, Sides

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• My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

  Alice Hoffman

  Country, Healing, School

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• Leaders when not leading are outcasts.

  Harold Klemp

  Leadership, Courage, Leader

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• When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

  Mitch Albom

  Stones

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm. Watch the people succumb To madness With ample cheer; Let them look askance at you And you askance reply. Be an outcast; Be pleased to walk alone (Uncool) Or line the crowded River beds With other impetuous Fools. Make a merry gathering On the bank Where thousands perished For brave hurt words They said. Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live Among your dead.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Cheer, Rivers

  Alice Walker (2011). “Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Taoism

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• The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

  Julian Barnes

  Sympathy, Universal

  Flaubert's Parrot (1984) ch. 10

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• There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Different, Proud, Artistic

  "Daniel Radcliffe on Romancing Boys in His New Movie and Not Being Cool in High School". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. October 16, 2013.

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• It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Country, Self, Retreat

  "How to Think COMMENTS". www.truthdig.com. July 9, 2012.

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• Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

  Douglas Kent Hall

  Tattoo, Regret, Passion

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• Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Cities, World, Gang

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• Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

  Ezra Miller

  Being The Best, Packs, Informative

  "Lost & Found". Interview with Shana Naomi Krochmal, www.out.com. August 15, 2012.

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• We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

  Mark Hoppus

  Fun, Kids, Honor

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• Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Home, Men, Opposites

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.569, Anchor

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• For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.

  Umberto Eco

  Simple, Illustration, Cities

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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