John Shelby Spong Quotes

I always feel like an outcast... it's just always been very different to everyone else.

I'm an outsider.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

You go through your life feeling like an outsider, and you respond to society in a different way when you feel like an outsider.

I've never really fit in.

I tried so many times to fit in but I could never ever fit in. I was always like, an outcast.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything to do with — they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I shoud mention them in my writings & I find more pleasure in wandering the fields then in mixing among my silent neighbours who are insensible of everything but toiling & talking of it & that to no purpose.

Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit.

Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.

I didn't feel that so much as an outsider when I started writing; I've felt that way all my life. I don't know, man; I guess I was just wired wrong. When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people. And I'm not trying to romanticize this, because it wasn't romantic. I wasn't trying to be a rebel; I just always felt a little out of it. I think that's why it's pretty easy for me to identify with people living on the margins.

I've always been pulled toward people who can't seem to make anything fit. It's like a cinema of isolation, of loneliness. They go outside the system and create their own society to develop their obsession to an insane degree.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

Only the bad man is alone.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.