Outsider Quotes

When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.

I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

Someone accused me of having 'gone off the rails' but I've never been on them hence the success and happiness I enjoy on a daily basis.

We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

Oh, I never fit in anywhere. I'm a loner. I don't even have many friends.

I am not a professional politician.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

I always felt like the 'outsider' kind of kid.

I'm an outsider by instinct.

People are strange when you're a stranger.

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.

I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

I think of myself as an Indian comedian, but I've had British and American schooling. I always had this feeling of not fitting in anywhere, of observing situations from the outside.

I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.

I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.