Charles Mackay Quotes

I don't consider myself a pariah.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

All of them turned their backs on me at that time because they thought I was a troublemaker.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

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

I was taunted because I was different.

At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

Everyone has been an outcast at one point in their life.

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

From now on, gang, we won't let Rudolph join in any reindeer games.

Dangers by being despised grow great.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

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

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.

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

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.