65 Quotes About Outcast





  • Author Thomas Ligotti
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    Perhaps our judgement of the purple woman was unfair. No doubt her theories concerning the "approach of the Teatro" made us all uneasy. But was this reason enough to cast her out from that artistic underworld which was the only society available to her? Like many societies, of course, ours was founded on fearful superstition, and this is always reason enough for any kind of behavior. She had been permanently stigmatized by too closely associating herself with something unclean in its essence.

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  • Author Mike Norton
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    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.

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  • Author Mary Szybist
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    There were so many things I wanted to tell you.Or rather, I wished to have things that I wanted to tell you.What a thing, to be with you and haveno words for it. What a thing,to be outcast like that.And then everything unfastened.It was like something was always dissolvinginside you—Already it's hard to rememberhow you used to comb your hair or how youtilted your broad face in green shade.Now what seas, what meaningscan I place in you?

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