Quotessence
Home / Topics / Outcast Quotes

Outcast Quotes

Browse 234 quotes about Outcast.

Related topics

PeopleFeelsWorldIfsSchoolKidsMenSocialThinkingWayDifferentHas BeensJesusMadeHigh SchoolKnowsOutsidersPoorSocial OutcastFeelingsFeltHome

Outcast Quotes

“The hardest thing about being an outcast isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants. After a while, it backs up into your system like stagnant water and turns toxic, poisoning your spirit. When this happens, you don't have many choices available. You can become a bitter loner who goes through life being pissed off at the world; you can fester with rage until one day you murder your classmates. Or, you can find another outlet for your love, where it will be appreciated and maybe even returned.”

WorldWantGivingLongHappensSpiritTurnsChoicesWaterLove YouOne DayMurderAvailableRageHardestBitterToxicHardest ThingAppreciatedOutletsLonerOutcastPoisoningStagnantPissed OffClassmatesStagnant Water
Book:Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman's Inspirational True Story
Create image

“When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.”

PeopleFeelsBookSecretGrowing UpGrowingMinesAnxietyLonelyWorthyCuresIslandsSatUnhappinessContemplatingSolitaryAdulthoodInteriorsMarginsOutcastFeeling LonelyPasswords
Author:Jodie Foster
Create image

“Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.”

NightHouseBlackHalfWatchesMinesSonWallBeatsStonesBluePrisonRoundsInjusticeStrangerTallShadeStubbornPalmsResignationOutcastStreaks
Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
Create image

“Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.”

BelieveHappensPoliticalHumanityLostI BelieveCareersDangerousClimateDenialSpiteCrucialTabooCoercionOutcastNaming Things
Author:Eve Ensler
Create image

“If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born into the world an outcast to rescue and renew outcasts from religion gone bad. He was born poor and died poor, yet the legacy of love he left us, the legacy of inclusion and acceptance and understanding, will endure forever.”

IfsWorldJesusLeftUnderstandingBornPoorGoneForeverAcceptanceMessagesDiedEndureLegacyGod LoveInclusionRescueNotableOutcast
Author:Mel White
Create image

“IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.”

IfsThinkingRealSoulDesireWishPoorRichClearHeroCivilizationProtectMembersMereClubsFixedDogmaRescueSageFavourPerilUnrealOutcast
Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
Create image

“A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.”

RunningFormWhiteCitiesSeaSkyLandCarFieldsBrokenCatMarkGreenLandscapeFuelAviationRejectsBottlesSheepMudLampsWireStarvingOutcastRibsScapegoatBlossomingPoniesFridgesSpeedingAnomaliesKurdsLimpingFleeceTyresSpeeding Cars
Author:Hilary Mantel
Create image

“It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.”

HeartI CanSpiritualTurnsJesusChristBornSeeingWorshipJesus ChristCrossesDiedBelieverSatisfiedCosmicThirstSkepticBorn AgainOutcastInsidersSpiritual Thirst
Author:Timothy Keller
Create image

“The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.”

PeopleSelfValuesCultureLeaderVirtueCrazyWorstConditionsDyingEmotionalDiseaseMurderPassionateIllnessConvictionIntenseMental IllnessPhrasesAttachmentIntensityAssassinationOutcastDisillusionedYeats
Book:Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
Create image

“Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. To-night at least, I would be her guest-as I was her child; my mother would lodge me without money and without price.”

MenChildrenWould BeMotherNightRejectionInsultGuestsAnticipateMistrustOutcastBenignFondnessLodgesFilial
Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Create image

“Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.”

KnowsLifePersonsEndsMovingLife IsCertainIndividualGivenSocialGoalSpaceProgressFailingJourneyPositionParticularOneselfStrangerFixedLackingSetting GoalsStaticOutcastKnowing OneselfSocial Relationships
Book:After Virtue
Create image