Quotes about outside
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“She makes me feel like it's raining outside”

Tom DeLonge (1975) American rock musician

da "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket")

Feeling

“It's dangerous, son."
"What's dangerous?"
"When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.”

Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) playwright and writer

Source: A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

Peace, Housing

“That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”

Jeff VanderMeer book Annihilation

Source: Annihilation

World, Reality, Madness

“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

People

“Julian: What's black inside, white outside, and hot?
Jenny: What?
Julian: A wolf in sheep's clothing.
Jenny: Is that what you are?
Julian: Me? No, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.”

L.J. Smith The Forbidden Game

Source: The Forbidden Game

Wolf, Clothes

“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Tell-All

Source: Tell-All

World

“One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside.
“You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

People, Reading, Painting

“Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Fear

“And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.”

Howard Thurman (1899–1981) American writer

Life

“Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

World, Sense, Time

“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

People, Star, Night

“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Attitude, Success, Life, Motivational

“I spend a quarter of every dayyou. When you set limits outside of that I can't help but see them as arbitrary.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Help

“Maybe all of her strangeness, her curse, her always feeling like an outsider, had all existed so that she could belong here, with Peter.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Feeling

“Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs.
I wonder how they feel tonight.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

People, Books, Feeling, Thinking

“We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Dreams

“Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

World, Star

“Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“I grabbed her, right there outside the lunch room in the swarming mob. I didn't care if others were watching. In fact, i hoped they were. I grabbed her and squeezed her. I had never been so happy and so proud in my life.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Life, Hope, Happiness

“The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

Source: The Money Game

“If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.”

Aung San Suu Kyi book Freedom from Fear

Source: Freedom from Fear

Idea

“My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Oskar during a visit to his therapist, Dr. Fein
"Happiness, Happiness" (p. 201)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: "I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside." "But it's worse for me." "I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him." "Probably. But it really is worse for me."

Personality

“I love you. You are my heart beating
outside of my chest.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Love, Heart

“Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: The River King

“Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Sense

“I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”

John Wilmot (1748–1815) English politician

World

“Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.”

Stephen King The Running Man

Source: The Running Man

“I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.”

Anne Rice (1941) American writer

Feeling

“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

Intelligence

“I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Time

“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Understanding, Change

“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
Source: The Complete Essays

Marriage, Bird

“I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

“There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

World, Cars

“I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.”

Susanna Kaysen (1948) American writer

Smile, Hurt

“Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.”

Tim Gunn (1953) American actor and fashion consultant

Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

People, Way

“This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.”

Jeanette Winterson book Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

Love, Way

“I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Perfection

“The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infamous

People

“But my agent has a theory. She says every marriage is jerry-rigged. Even the ones that look reasonable from the outside are held together inside with chewing gum and wire and string.”

Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation

Source: Dept. of Speculation

Marriage

“But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

Heart

“Sometimes destiny lies just outside of our reach.”

Alyson Nöel book Shadowland

Shadowland

“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”

Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves

Source: Laughable Loves

People

“An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.”

Iain Banks book Excession

Source: Excession

Way, Problem

“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

Change

“After a minute he said, "It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that…except you.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Lula had Eminem cranked up. He was rapping about trailer park girls and how they go round the outside, and I was wondering what the heck that meant. I'm a white girl from Trenton. I don't know these things. I need a rap
cheat sheet.”

Janet Evanovich book To the Nines

Source: To the Nines

Girl, Cheating

“All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.”

Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House

Thinking

“But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Girl

“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

World, Feeling

“Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.”

Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire

Source: The Last Vampire

Feeling, Light, Strong

“I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.”

Steve Martin book The Pleasure of My Company

Source: The Pleasure of My Company

Life, Heart

“There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside. If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.”

Bill Condon (1955) American film director

Love, Books, World, Beauty

“I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

God, Faith, Question, Time

“Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“You know I can’t go out there. There’s daylight outside. (Ravyn)
Well, that’s what happens when the big yellow ball comes up over the mountains. Amazing isn’t it? (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Mountain

“Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.”

Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985) American speculative fiction writer

As quoted in an interview with David Duncan http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/misc/duncan.html <br class="br">Context: Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called "other", which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

Science