Orphan Quotes

On starting without a claim, a form, or a home.

These Orphan quotes use the word metaphorically as often as literally, calling biography 'the orphan of academia' and noting that victory has many fathers while defeat is an orphan. The isolation here overlaps with Alone quotes.


For the feeling behind the metaphor, Being Alone quotes offers a more direct companion, while Academia quotes connects to the biography reference here. Each line treats being an orphan as loss and a strange kind of freedom.