Amy Grant Quotes

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

A lot of people have a lot of things going on in their life. You'll be walking past ten people in the middle of the day and not even notice, but someone might have a family member that died, or someone might be going through a hard time. Sometimes you're the only person that someone might see that lifts them up.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

I was always an odd girl; I managed to alienate a lot of people. I felt like a square peg in a round hole in the music industry and created a lot of neurosis for myself.

Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

No one feels another's grief.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

I really do wish people could understand me some day.

I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier.