{"quotes":[{"text":"Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["abnormal","cultural-guilt","culture","different","guilt","media","outcast","rejection","society","subconscious"],"id":18342,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I was a young, \u0026 had deep loves, \u0026 my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled with the crowd, I mixed with my fellow men, speaking my thought out loud! And they gaped back at me, without understanding. And I withdrew from them, \u0026 they said to me: Arrogant one! And from time to time in my solitude, my loves, my repressed enthusiasms broke out into odes, conversation; \u0026 my companions laughed and used to point at me as a madman. So I suffered, doubted, cursed, \u0026 no one believed me sincere. It’s as if this heart, once so full of strength \u0026 love were annihilated.","author":"Comte de Lautréamont","tags":["genius","lover","madman","outcast","pariah"],"id":23508,"author_id":"Comte+de+Lautr%C3%A9amont"},{"text":"I'm a lion in a strange land.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ity","awkwardness","beast","courage","different","earth","king","land","lion","loneliness","misunderstanding","misunderstood","odd","original","outcast","strange","strength","strong","weird","world"],"id":54248,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"She felt just like that girl in that book with the letter A on her chest. Only her A signified Alone. She was an outcast, cast out by her own choices, an outsider with a pretty face. Like a rose, she may have been beautiful to look at, but almost everyone only knew the thorny side.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["alone","loneliness","outcast","scarlet-letter"],"id":58627,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["anti-hero","destruction","exile","hate","outcast","talent","wonderful"],"id":67872,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"...Very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["alone","come-to-the-fair","isolation","loneliness","lonely","misery","outcast","recluse","solitary","solitude"],"id":79890,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["change","dealing-with-people","experience","life","mental-hospital","outcast","place","stranger","world"],"id":91333,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"},{"text":"Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["awkward","creative","creativity","disagreeable","envy","intimidating","intimidation","mediocre","mediocrity","misunderstood","odd","original","originality","outcast","peculiar","strange","unusual"],"id":119316,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I mulled over the implications and decided not to waste my time worrying about what everyone else thought, or to bother attempting to change their perceptions. My time at the Keep was just a stopover. Let them wonder.","author":"Maria V. Snyder","tags":["gossip","judgements","outcast","perceptions","wonder","yelena-zaltana"],"id":124872,"author_id":"Maria+V.+Snyder"},{"text":"She may have been among them but she could never be one of them. She was without inclusion for-as-much as she was not 'one of the girls' and she wasn't 'one of the guys.' She was an outsider gazing in, endlessly comfortless, while they wished they had what it took to be less like the others and more like her.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["alone","belonging","fitting-in","isolated","odd","outcast","outsider","unique"],"id":127567,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}