Harry Hay Quotes

We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me.

I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

I never really felt I belonged; there was always a sense of apartness. At school, I was the cricketer.

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

I remember being this little girl missing her daddy and living so far away in France and from anything that was familiar to me. I felt so different and so isolated. When you're removed from everything that's familiar, you realize who you are.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

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

When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

I am the odd man out in the family.

I don't belong to anyone.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

There are two ways to make a person feel homeless—one is to destroy his home and the other is to make his home look and feel like everybody else’s home.