Colum McCann Quotes

When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.

I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me.

I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.

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.

Neither God nor the Devil would take me in, so here I am.

You have turned me out; you have turned me out.

I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

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

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

I think everybody can sort of relate to feeling like the outcast and feeling a bit lost and just craving somebody's attention.

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.

It's not so nice when you don't feel wanted.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

You have to remember, throughout my career, no one has ever really wanted to speak to me or wanted to sit down with me.

I was ostracized by my community.

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

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

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