Mitch Albom Quotes

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

I've never fit in anywhere in my life. Ever.

I never really fit in anywhere.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

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.

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

I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.

Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.

Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to.

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.

There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are fewer films, certainly with a lady at the center, about the agony of what it's like to feel like you're not accepted, and you're different, and somehow you're weird.

Everybody think they're an outsider - that word's over! When I was young, being an outsider, I thought it was a bad thing you didn't want to be.

I gravitate to the world's outcasts.

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 was ostracized by my community.

I was always the weirdo at school.

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.

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

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.