Outsiders Quotes

Quotes on what it means to feel like an outsider, and to belong.

To be an outsider is to be looking in - at a culture, a group, or a place that doesn't quite see you as one of its own. These quotes explore that feeling from several angles, including the discomfort of being treated as a foreigner, a theme also found in our Difference quotes.


Not every quote here accepts the outsider label as final; one insists that in a true family, no one should be left outside at all. Explore related ideas in our Exclusion and Identity quote collections.