The best Quotes from The Outsider

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

A man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored.

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there's always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.