Outsider Feeling Quotes

I am your homegirl, at the end of the day, but I also feel very... outside. So if you're finding solace in feeling outside with me, then we're good to go.

I don't think anyone can listen to a Smiths song and not scream your lungs out in recognition of what it's like to feel odd.

I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.

For immigrant families, television is what connects you to American culture, but it's also what makes you feel like an outsider.

I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider.

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

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

I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes.

I don't feel comfortable as an insider.

I think I will always feel like an outsider.

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction, it's that feeling. I always feel that way.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

I've always felt like an outsider as a woman. I've never really felt wholly comfortable in a women's world or woman's things. I've never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I've seen on TV has never felt like mine.

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.

In high school, I remember feeling like a Jughead - like I was a little bit weird and kind of emotional. I also remember feeling like an Archie - sort of the leader of the pack.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.

I mean I was very shy but I was also very extroverted because I was doing plays. I'd been doing plays since I was a little kid. But, I did feel like an outsider because I went to like a 'college-prep' kind of high school that had a really big football team and was known for its program so I was like this weird boy that did plays.

In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.

I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

I've always felt on the outside, really.

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