Wendy Cope Quotes

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

I don't have any social life or anything.

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've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

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 sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.

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.

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 lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

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.

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

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.

In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.

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.

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 used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.