Harlan Ellison Quotes

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.

I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

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.

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.

I understand the feelings of being the outcast and the loner.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

I never felt like I belong to anything - to any groups of friends. I never really had that.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.

Outcasts always mourn.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

I literally felt like a freak, which is another aspect of the role of Sally that I relate to: total outsider.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

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