Outsider Quotes

“I’ve always been a sort of self-imposed outsider, not a geeky outsider or a snobby outsider but, I just have a natural desire to live on the fringe. I’m not like a weirdo with a trench-coat but I just prefer to be alone or minimally surrounded by people.”

“But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.”

“I know always that I am an outsider”

“Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.”

“Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.”

“I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.”

“Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.”

“If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays with you.”

“It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.”

“Anna… envied Joan’s deep connection with the human race. She was a member of the club. Anna was half convinced she’d been begotten by a passing alien life-form on a human woman. It was as good an explanation as any for the sense she had of being an outsider.”