Outsider Quotes

204 quotes by 190 authors

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still… — H P Lovecraft
What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own… — P. C. Cast
No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. — Banana Yoshimoto
Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth. — Ally Carter
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to… — Robert Anton Wilson
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — H P Lovecraft
I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises. Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was, I've… — Fernando Pessoa
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort. — Anne Rice
Even if I did speak Irish, Iâ€™d always be considered an outsider here, wouldnâ€™t I? I may learn the password but the language of the… — Brian Friel
When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think itâ€™s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go… — Veronica Roth
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. — Erma Bombeck
Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from… — Laura Esquivel
But you're like me,â€ he says. â€œAn outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along. — Darren Shan
Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell… — Colin Wilson
Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult,… — Eckhart Tolle
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to… — Ann Hood
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them. — Garry Wills
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider,… — Rachel Cusk
I like the idea of being caught between things, always being a bit of an outsider, having an outside eye on things - almost like… — Riz Ahmed
I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside. — Pam Ferris

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