Looking for quotes about the feeling of being left out? We have rounded up the best list of being left out quotes, sayings, and captions (with images, and pictures) which you can relate to.
The feeling of being left out can be a painful and isolating experience, whether it’s being excluded from a group of friends, not being invited to an event, or feeling like we don’t belong.
The emotions that come with being left out can range from sadness and hurt to anger and frustration.
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As human beings, we have a strong need to feel part of a community. There are many reasons why you might be feeling left out from your usual group of friends, coworkers, or family. It’s a very sad and hurting feeling when you feel left out.
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There are many quotes about being left out that express the complex emotions that come with this experience.
Some of these quotes highlight the importance of inclusion and empathy, while others speak to the pain and hurt that can come from feeling left out.
Feeling of Being Left Out Quotes
- “I feel so left out.”
- “I leave before being left out. I decide.”
- “Feeling left out by friends is the worst.”
- “I feel left out but I guess it’s my own fault.”
- “I always feel left out, worthless, and unloved at times.”
- “Being left out was a kind of freedom.” ― Lauren Kate
- “Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.” ― Clive James
- “Sometimes I feel as left out as the third verse of a hymn.”
- “Love is universal, no one can be left out.” ― Deepak Chopra
- “Being fat means being left out, scorned, and vilified.” ― Mary Pipher
- “My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.” ― W.H. Auden
- “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.” ― Rupi Kaur
- “Give the gift of your absence to those who do not appreciate your presence.”
- “I don’t want to be alone or left out, I just want to be alone for a few minutes.”
- “I think we’re all totally isolated beings and will always will be.” ― James Taylor
- “I’m the one girl in the group that gets left out of everything just because I’m quiet.”
- “Feeling left out is horrible. But you can’t say how you feel without sounding jealous.”
- “I’m the kind of person that buys my pets birthday presents so they don’t feel left out.”
- “I tried to never exclude people. I know what it means to be left out.” ― Riccardo Tisci
- “A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.” ― Mark Twain
Best Quotes About Not Being Included
Maybe some of them have a new job, a new romantic relationship, or are simply forgetting to invite you along.
These quotes might help you realize that you’re not the only one who has felt this way and help you in overcoming that sense of loneliness.
- “A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.” ― Jane Fonda
- “Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.” ― Robin Hobb
- “Lonely is not being alone, it’s the feeling that no one cares, the feeling of always being left out.”
- “God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.” ― Arthur Koestler
- “Sometimes I get the feeling the world kinda left us behind a long time ago.” ― Randal Graves
- “Never say you are alone for you are not alone, your God and your genius is within.” ― Epictetus
- “I’ve been feeling so left out, and i know everyone is busy but i could really use some quality time.”
- “I strongly dislike the feeling of being left out; especially by somebody, I considered a good friend.”
- “You may be feeling left out now because they ignore you. But they’ll need you someday, that’s life.”
- “To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.” ― Anthony Burgess
- “No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.” ― Deborah Curtis
- “He felt that if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.” ― D. H. Lawrence
- “The worst thing about being left out is knowing you weren’t even a simple thought in any of their minds.”
- “Being ignored and feeling left out causes the same chemical reaction in the brain as being physically hurt.”
- “It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.” ― James Alan Gardner
Sad Feeling Left Out Quotes
- “Let’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.” ― Hillary Clinton
- “Choose your spouse carefully. Being single and feeling left out is better than being married and feeling left out.”
- “I automatically stop trying when I feel unwanted or left out. I won’t reach out to you if it’s not mutual. I don’t beg.”
- “Sports metaphors are one of the ways women feel left out of the language of the office.” ― Jan Levinson-Gould
- “Think about what you like to do and don’t talk yourself into something for fear of being left out.” ― Amy E. Spiegel
- “No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the Gods.” ― Socrates
- “Feeling left out with the ones, who you loved or they claimed to love you? That’s nothing but priorities changed.”
- “I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don’t feel alone or left out.” ― Vin Scully
- “I’m used to it. I’m used to being left out. I’m used to the second choice or the backup friend.I’m used to it and I’m sick of it.”
- “In life you’re going to be left out, talked about, lied to and used. But you have to decide who’s worth your tears and who’s not.”
- “When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warriors perspective and contact bodhichitta?” ― Pema Chodron
- “I’ve always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.” ― Nelson Gidding
- “In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.” ― Jenna Marbles
- “If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.” ― Stephen Chbosky
- “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” ― Douglas Coupland
- “No one has ever loved me. I was left behind. I only want one thing alone, I want someone to love me like the way i would love them.”
- “Whenever you realize that you have been left out, let your presence be known by leaving the conversation, instead of trying too hard.”
- “I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.” ― Melanie Brown
- “Normal! He thought. Normal! I don’t want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.” ― Paul Stewart
- “I feel as if I am being left out, as though I’m some straggler and people can’t quite remember to stay back for me.” ― Marilynne Robinson
- “Have you ever sat with your friends and just know that you’re the least important friend in the group and you just can’t help but feel left out?”
- “The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.” ― Walter Scott
- “Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.” ― Theodore Bikel
- “My best friend is disabled. There’s nothing he hates more than being left out of the jokes, to be treated with kid gloves.That’s the insult.” ― Jeff Ross
- “You don’t know how it feels, to be outside the crowd. You don’t know what it’s like to be left out. And you don’t know how it feels, to be your own best friend.”
- “Respect people who find out time for you in their busy schedule. But love people who never look at their schedule when you need them so you are never feeling left out.”
- “Snuggle in God’s arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.” ― Kay Arthur
- “Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.” ― Daniel Webster
- “Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and the America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.” ― Matthew Arnold
- “I know what it’s like to be left out… I certainly went through a period of time where I got made fun of and people were so mean to me, so I can really relate to that.” ― Ashley Benson
- “I’m full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly – my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I’m left out.” ― Helen Garner
- “In a way it’s not so terrible to be left out, because then you could see at a very early age that there’s an entire motherlode of stories that belong to you and nobody else.” ― Maxine Hong Kingston
- “As it was, I couldn’t escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I’d left half-read at home and wishing I’d stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now.” ― Charlaine Harris
- “In this world, feeling left out and alone / Thousands around you yet you’re out there on / Your own / Let the power guide you like tittle David and the / Stone / And come, and come, come on home.” ― Dave Clark and Mike Smith
- “People can have political opinions and put them into songs. I’d never deliberately do that, but that’s a personal choice I’m inspired by my man but not by his previous position. I’m more inspired by people that are left out by society.” ― Carla Bruni
- “Stop holding onto people who keep letting go of you. Pay attention to the faithful people. The ones you don’t have to impress. The ones who always have your back. The ones that love you with no strings attached or who never make you feel left out.”
- “This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.” ― Bill Hicks
- “Because [writers] Dan Weiss and David Benioff have done such a great job in adapting them, that’s what we work with. It serves no purpose to anybody for actors to come onto a set with a well-thumbed copy of the source material and start querying why this or that line has been left out of the script. It’s probably been left out for a good reason.” ― Charles Dance
- “I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I’m going. If it means suffering, I’m going that way. If it means dying for them, I’m going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
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