108 Quotes About Outsider

I had to be strong, for every man and woman in our fair community was here to witness my beloved being put to rest, some with satisfaction, and some with relief. But all would gather an accounting of the events here today, to be relayed at future balls and parlour teas, as a comeuppance for my marrying an outsider.

I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.

I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry.

Willy seemed like an inhabitant of some other dimension who could only tenuously communicate with the ordinary world. This would have troubled her less if she had not imagined his other dimension as a place of horror.

He felt himself falling into a state, very common when he was younger, of being totally cut off from the society he was in.

I felt such a stranger there, like a poor lodger. One must be with one's own people.

I'm not like other people, my life just doesn't work, it never has.

With the English, nothing could save him from being the eternal outsider, not even love.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.