Outcast quotes
33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!"
"Outcasts always mourn."
"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."
"Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone."
"The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly."
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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."
"God dances with the outcast."
"Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme."
"On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace."