Quotes about Outsider

Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace He bore.

I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th' meshes.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. Probably the best way is to be from Mars.

The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside. His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.

When I was a teenager in Georgia I always felt like the odd one. I never felt like I fit in.

I see all the while how folks could say he was queer, but that was the very reason couldn't nobody hold it personal. It was like he was outside of it too, same as you, and getting mad at it would be kind of like getting mad at a mud-puddle that splashed you when you stepped in it.

It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.

Or, donner la grosse cloche en mariage à Quasimodo, c'était donner Juliette à Roméo.

You get used to it, not in the good way, to the extent of the entire world oftentimes feeling like a place where you weren't invited. If you've been here, you know. If not, must be nice.

From an outsider it must have looked much of the time as if the wicked fist dominated the Israelites' lives. From the inside the witness of faith said that it did not:

Jesus is the only outsider who truly knows the insider our skin keeps veiled.

One of our most deep-seated fears is that we might be called an "outsider." This fear has led us down the road to conformity, has put the imprint of "the organization man" on our souls, and has robbed us of originality of thought, individuality of personality, and constructive action.