Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Quotes

I've never really fit in.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I always felt like a misfit.

When we belong to a community and learn things that are no way related to our society, we live as unwanted entities in that society.

However popular you are, you still feel like an outsider.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I always felt an outsider.

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

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

As a kid I just felt like an outsider.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.