41 Quotes About Being an Outcast

Being a misfit is one way to create a reputation for yourself. Here are some great quotes about being an outcast that are shocking to read.

“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.”

“Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.”

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

“For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”

“For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to the ironies, the niceties, the manners, and indeed, the morals to be able to participate.”

“God dances with the outcast.”

“I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people’s opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance.”

“I can’t go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.”

“I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside.”

“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.”

“I like feeling a bit of an outcast where I am. I’ve always been that way. Somehow, I fit in by not fitting in.”

“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.”

“I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself – simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.”

“I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I’ve always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.”

“I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.”

“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.”

“In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.”

“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.”

“In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn’t tell.”

“In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.”

“It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they’re not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.”

“Jesus… associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.”

“Leaders when not leading are outcasts.”

“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.”

“Never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That’s my role in life, to be an outcast.”

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

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

“Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society’s most neglected members.”

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

“She felt the warmth of Peter’s arm under her neck, and it almost felt like he was an extension of her, and like if they had souls, they lay somewhere snug between their two bodies.”

“Some of us aren’t meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

“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.”

“Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.”

“We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other’s art.”

“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.”

“What’s the safest thing to be when one is met by a gang of social outcasts in an alley? …No, another social outcast!”

“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.”

Dealing with being an outcast can be difficult at times. There are many great strategies you can use to get through to the individual.