Laurie David Quotes

I lived at home and found myself really, really lonely because all my friends were enjoying college and partying, and I didn't have that.

I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

At one point in time or another, everyone's an outcast, and you have to deal with those sort of issues in society. Especially for teenage kids, I don't think there's anyone that's really been through childhood and not been an outcast in one way or another.

In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.

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.

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I was never part of the crowd.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast.

Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

I was not the popular kid in school.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

Everyone is against me - except the people!

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

It's always hard not to be a member of the team. There's lots of pressure to do that.

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.