Jane Addams Quotes

I was never part of the crowd.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.

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.

In a lot of ways, in high school, I was very much an outsider and never really felt like I fit into any particular clique or group, and so I found myself solo very often.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

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

I've personally been on the outside sometimes. But I was - I personally was never persecuted especially in the way in which sharing my own experiences.

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.

It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.

I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

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.

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

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

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

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 think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

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 just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to.

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

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.