quotations about outcasts
I think if you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.
TIM BURTON
"Tim Burton: Boyhood traumas of a director", The Independent, February 26, 2010
Those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
PATRICIA ROBERTS HARRIS
Newsweek, Jan. 24, 1977
She was an outcast, cast out by her own choices, an outsider with a pretty face. Like a rose, she may have been beautiful to look at, but almost everyone only knew the thorny side.
VICTORIA KAHLER
Their Friend Scarlet
Some of us are fated to live in a box from which there is only temporary release. We of the damned-up spirits, of the thwarted feelings, of the blocked hearts, and the pent-up thoughts, we who long to blast out, flood forth in a torrent of rage or joy or even madness, but there is nowhere for us to go, nowhere in the world because no one will have us as we are.
SIRI HUSTVEDT
The Summer Without Men
There was a certain freedom in being on the outside. He watched instead of being watched.
AMY ZHANG
Falling into Place
To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.
MASHA GESSEN
Words Will Break Cement
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
Prison Tattoos
There are few outcasts in the world that actually can teach another their skills, so outcasts are outcasts, even from each other. When they find another outcast, most are not sure what to do and most just pass each other by without acknowledgment.
DAVID SANDERS
OCS Adventurer's Handbook
The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
UMBERTO ECO
The Name of the Rose
What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it's that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of normality that is just a myth.
ANNE RICE
Exit to Eden
That's what I love about you. You're a freak. Like me.
SHANE KUHN
The Intern's Handbook
Outcasts are the ones who dare to survive without society; they attempt to escape the mold pre-destined for them, and in some cases they succeed.
KRISTEN MALONEY
Timeless Martyrs Cycle