Outcast Quotes - Page 6

• People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Melting, World

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You're not my mentor so stay out of my fur. Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67

  Erin Hunter

  Mentor, Fur, Know It All

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• Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Growing Up, Class

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “George Will vs. Nick Hornby: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I've had a lot of people who've said they can relate to the show and it's helped them through a lot of difficult times, especially the kids in high school now. Everyone kind of feels like an outcast in high school. Even if you're super popular, you still have issues.

  Jillian Rose Reed

  School, Kids, Issues

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• I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

  Dolly Parton

  Years, Littles, Way

  "Why Dolly Parton Goes to Bed in Full Makeup" by Dan Kloeffler, www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2014.

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• For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Parent, World

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.145

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• I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

  Harlan Ellison

  Acceptance, Good Friend, No Friends

  Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”

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• Here, take this, she would say, take this, and tell me where he is. Tell me whether he's dead or alive, so I can walk as his widow or his wife. No one would, or could, tell her, and so she continued to cook, and to learn new things all the while searching for an answer among the outcasts. The way he carried his body, the way he walked in my life, Tatiana thought, declared that he was the only man I had ever loved, and he knew it. And until I was alone without him, I thought it was all worth it.

  Paullina Simons

  Men, Wife, Widows

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• Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world.

  Ezra Miller

  Different, World, Ranking

  "Ezra Miller and Zoë Kravitz Exclusive Interview BEWARE THE GONZO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2011.

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• On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, War, Korea

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast in her society because she was disabled, to someone who picked herself from that despair and elevated herself within that community, and now that society accepting her as much as they formerly rejected her. People identified with that journey, overcoming an obstacle, but still triumphing.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Journey, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• You feel like you're an outcast. You're the old man. I promise you, all the kids, none of them have beards. They all just have a little stubble on their face. The girls all look like middle schoolers. I just felt really old. It really reminded me how far removed from college I am.

  Randall Cobb

  Girl, Kids, College

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

  Shane Koyczan

  Distance, People, Like Me

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• Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy, That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Stars, War, Long

  "A Child Is Born". Poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet (first presented on radio as part of the anthology program "Cavalcade of America"), December 21, 1942.

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• What's the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? ...No, another social outcast!

  S. E. Hinton

  Gang, Social, Mets

  S. E. Hinton (2016). “The Outsiders 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Penguin

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• I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.

  Chuck Mosley

  Stuff, Punk, Stills

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  People, Forever, Looks

  Hilary Bailey, Mary Wollstonecraft (2007). “Frankenstein's Bride: Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”

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• I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

  Frederick Douglass

  Father, Home, Land

  Frederick Douglass (2008). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.172, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

  Germaine Greer

  World, Slavery, Abandonment

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Comedy really is my bread and butter, even when I'm doing a serious character, with the exception of Outcast. I have found very little humor in this character. Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.

  Brent Spiner

  Character, Serious, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.

  Brigid Schulte

  People, Risk, Social

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time”, p.42, A&C Black

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• A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Cat, Sheep

  "Beyond Black". Book by Hilary Mantel, 2005.

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• On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Grace, Crosses

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.32, Penguin

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• It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

  "Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions".

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• The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.

  Brad Blanton

  Crazy, Emotional, Attachment

  Brad Blanton (1996). “Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth”, Dell

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