Social Outcast Quotes:

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.

- Daniel Radcliffe

source: "Daniel Radcliffe on Romancing Boys in His New Movie and Not Being Cool in High School". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. October 16, 2013.

topic: Different, Proud, Artistic, Social Outcast, Artistic Talent

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.

- Meat Loaf

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: True Love, Roles, Alternatives, Social Outcast, Roles In Life

God dances with the outcast.

- Steven James

source: Steven James (2005). “How to Smell Like God: True Stories Burning with the Scent of Heaven”, p.20, Standard Publishing

topic: Encouragement, Outcast, Social Outcast

People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.

- Osamu Dazai

source: Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

topic: People, Melting, World, Social Outcast

I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is going out with a missing Portuguese criminal and your friends don't want to be your friend anymore, it makes you want to emigrate to a vicious Muslim regime, where at least all the women are treated like social outcasts. Anyway, I don't care. I am going to quietly read a book all weekend and listen to classical music.

- Helen Fielding

source: Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

topic: Mother, Hate, Book, Social Outcast, Portuguese

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.

- Gunter Brus

source: "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber, 2005.

topic: Struggle, Views, Alive, Social 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. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

- Portia de Rossi

source: Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

topic: Acceptance, Helping Others, People, Social 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!

- S. E. Hinton

topic: Gang, Outcast, Social, Social Outcast