#outsider

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

— Lance Bass

#believe #every #feel #i #i believe

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#condition #i #just #like #outsider

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame. ↗

— Ville Valo

#art #blame #criticized #gets #outsider

Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~ ↗

— Eileen Miller

#autism #outsider-art #art

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#belong #conflict #element #frankly #i

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#hard #horse #looks #outsider #persuade

Some people love Death to death, some people love Life for life. ↗

— W. Freedreamer Tinkanesh

#death

Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday affairs. Lovers were whispering to each other, businessmen were poring over spread sheets, college kids were planning their next ski trip and discussing the new Police album. We could have been in any city in Japan. Transplant this coffee shop scene to Yokohama or Fukuoka and nothing would seem out of place. In spite of which -- or, rather, all the more because -- here I was, sitting in this coffee shop, drinking my coffee, feeling a desperate loneliness. I alone was the outsider. I had no place here. Of course, by the same token, I couldn't really say I belonged to Tokyo and its coffee shops. But I had never felt this loneliness there. I could drink my coffee, read my book, pass the time of day without any special thought, all because I was part of the regular scenery. Here I had no ties to anyone. Fact is, I'd come to reclaim myself. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#coffee-shops #loneliness #normality #outsider #reclaim

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like. ↗

— Amy Grant

#anybody #ever #given #gone #hard

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#either #founded #history #intellectual #intellectuals