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Quotes About Outcast

He had almost fallen in with that part of humanity of which he was frequently mindful (he never forgot the hotel on lower Broadway), the part that did not get away with it—the lost, the outcast, the overcome, the effaced, the ruined.
~ Saul Bellow
One does not become an outcast by birth, one does not become a Brahmin by birth. It is by deed that one becomes an outcast, it is by deed that one becomes a Brahmin." The
~ John Burdett
Every family has its black sheep — in ours it was Uncle Petros.
~ Apostolos Doxiadis
I was always a sci-fi and fantasy geek. I was in the 'Lord of the Rings' club and all my cool friends made fun of me.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
We should not deck out and embellish Christianity: it has waged a war to the death against this higher type of man, it has put all the deepest instincts of this type under its ban, it has developed its concept of evil, of the Evil One himself, out of these instincts — the strong man as the typical reprobate, the "outcast among men.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Angie Dickinson in 'Hollywood Wives' took me under her wing. If you look at that cast, I was definitely an 'outcast'... so to speak. Most of them were of the same era, or just so much more experienced that I was.
~ Catherine Mary Stewart
Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends who are actresses. They're catty, and they'll cut you down. I like that Perez is proud of who he is and doesn't care what anybody thinks.
~ Amanda Bynes
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.
~ Quentin Crisp
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
Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul.
~ Anne Rice
And there were moments on that first night in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of all my secret power, I was somehow kin to every mortal man. Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul.
~ Anne Rice
Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.
~ Lewis Carroll
People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.
~ John Hodgman
monachopsis n. the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a beach—lumbering, clumsy, easily distracted, huddled in the company of other misfits, unable to recognize the ambient roar of your intended habitat, in which you'd be fluidly, brilliantly, effortlessly at home.
~ John Koenig
Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Human nature is the worst possible! Once I lived among ye. From self-decency now I habitate the waste places, a willing outcast; associate of goats, cleaner far, more honest than men.
~ Austin Osman Spare
She felt like the loser kid the teacher made everyone play with at recess. -Hanna Marin
~ Sara Shepard
I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.
~ Christina Perri
Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And he who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity; he is like the Tribeless, lawless, hearthless one, whom Homer denounces — the natural outcast is forthwith a lover of war; he may be compared to an isolated piece at draughts.
~ Aristotle
A black sheep in the family, no doubt
~ John Wayne
It's very lonely, feeling like an outcast. Like you are invited to a costume party, but you are the only one in a mask.
~ Ellen Schreiber
charitable tolerance. You would find yourself an outcast whom people might pity, but whom, if they were
~ Barbara Cartland
It was hard to imagine feeling more out of place than she did at that moment.
~ Barbara Davis
My grandmother is the black-sheep rebel of the family.
~ David Andrew Sinclair