Paul Beatty Quotes

I'm sensitive to the things I see.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who's in tune with what's really going on.

I guess I always think of myself as more of the people. I always feel like a bit of an outsider.

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

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

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

I'm one of these guys who always feel like the outsider, you know? I'm always longing to be part of something, you know?

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel.

What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've always stayed outside of it.

We need to be more sensitive to each other.