Harmony Korine Quotes

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

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

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

I'm an outsider.

The whole world is out of step, apart from me.

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 was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

I've always been interested in the outsider.

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

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

There is an element in some of my work that has to do with being an outsider, feeling like not part of the dominant culture.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

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

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel like they must be the strangest person in the world. They don't fit in to the religious milieu of their communities. It doesn't make any sense to them. They read some of my columns and they know that there's somebody in the world at least as crazy as they are, and so they write and say is there anybody else?

My background sets me apart. I've never been able to relate to many people. I've always been the outcast child.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.