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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• 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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• 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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• There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Peace, Eye, Perspective

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1998). “Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Writings”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

  Ted Dekker

  Lonely, Taken, Intelligent

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.

  Elsa Morante

  Intelligent, Men, Giving

  Elsa Morante (1977). “History: A Novel”, Knopf

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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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• If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Nature, Power, Men

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• A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants to be an outsider, or indeed an outcast; in order to avoid this risk everybody adapts to the majority, who have in common only their mutual antagonism.

  Erich Fromm

  Character, Simple, Order

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• Knowledge does have a way of making you an outcast.

  Jackson Pearce

  Doe, Way

  Jackson Pearce (2011). “Sisters Red”, p.62, Hachette UK

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