quotations about outcasts
The freaks spend their lives shambling around, wondering how they got left out, mumbling about conspiracy theories and bigfoot sightings. Their encounters with the world are marked by awkward conversations and stifled laughter, hidden smirks and rolled eyes. And worst of all, pity.
DAVID WONG
John Dies at the End
It wasn't simply his choosing to be alone that kept him that way; it was almost a condition of his existence. The feeling that he was an outsider had always been there.
TERRY BROOKS
Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold
God dances with the outcast.
STEVEN JAMES
How to Smell Like God: True Stories Burning with the Scent of Heaven
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
JOHN ORTBERG
Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them
When individuals are shamed so remorselessly and unforgivingly that they become outcasts, or even begin to think of themselves as outcasts it becomes more rewarding to associate with others who are perceived in some limited or total way as also at odds with mainstream standards.
JOHN BRAITHWAITE
Crime, Shame and Reintegration
Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful.
MIKE NORTON
Fighting for Redemption
The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new--whether it be the settlement of new lands or the initiation of new ways of life--is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.
ERIC HOFFER
The Passionate State of Mind
What can an outsider know, except
the shell of things?
MAXINE KUMIN
attributed, Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius
The tramp, the assassin, the rebel, the thief, the mutant, the outcast, the delinquent, the devil, the sinner, the traveler, the gangster, the runner, the mask: if we did not recognize in them our least-fulfilled needs, we would not invent them over and over again, in every place, in every language, in every time.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
The Outcasts are a sickening shade of gray. In case you hadn't noticed, there are worse things out there than me.
LAUREN KATE
Torment
We know that the outcasts and misfits are the children most likely to become violent, so it only follows that we must pull them into the arms of love and/or acceptance, and find a place where they fit. If our system doesn't have a place where a child fits, there's something wrong with the system, not the child.
WILLIAM G. DEFOORE
Anger
Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.
CRISS JAMI
Healology
A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.
CRISS JAMI
Killosophy
Did all outcasts come to this realization at a certain point in life? That being outcast from a bogus and pornographic society actually was a good thing? I hoped so. I hoped there was an army of us out there, smiling about it that very moment.
A. S. KING
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out.
UMBERTO ECO
The Name of the Rose
Often the outcasts are spoken of in terms of a new social category and of a new human type. They become favourite heroes in literature, described as 'superfluous people' when they are passive nihilists, or as revolutionists when they are active nihilists. In their isolation the outcasts dream of and act for a new society and civilization.
ZEVEDEI BARBU
Democracy and Dictatorship: Their Psychology and Patterns
Even though there has been in me a lifelong desire to be an insider looking out, I nevertheless kept choosing over and over again the position of the outsider looking in. Sometimes this looking-in was a curious looking-in, sometimes a jealous looking-in, sometimes an anxious looking-in, and, once in a while, even a loving looking-in. But giving up the somewhat safe position of the critical observer seemed like a great leap into totally unknown territory.
HENRI J. M. NOUWEN
The Return of the Prodigal Son
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.
COLM TOIBIN
The Master
Outcasts always mourn.
OSCAR WILDE
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
We will no longer be outcasts -- we will be rulers.
K. WEIKEL
The One-Hundred: Damian's Deeds