"The Outsider" Quotes

The Outsider is the man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what everyone accepts and living by a standard of what is, in his heart, second best.

The Outsider is a man who knows that he is different and feels a little as though he were living on another planet.

For the Outsider, the world is a puzzle, and he cannot accept the half-truths and superficial explanations that the bourgeois give for everything.

The Outsider is a man who has awakened to chaos, who has become aware that he lives in a world of chance and contingency.

The Outsider is a man who stands against the crowd, who stands against what we call the spirit of the times.

The Outsider is a man who is at odds with his age and its civilization, who is less concerned with social norms and conventions than with the search for meaning and truth.

The Outsider is a man who is driven by a sense of dislocation, a feeling that he does not belong in the world in which he finds himself.

The Outsider is a man who feels the need to escape the triviality and shallowness of everyday life, to seek something more profound and meaningful.

The Outsider is a man who searches for authenticity in a world of artificiality, who rejects the inauthentic and the insincere.

The Outsider is a man who is consumed by a sense of alienation, by a feeling of being a stranger in a strange land.