Never Belonged Quotes

#1. I love you," I told him. "And all of this, our life, is everything I wished to have but wasn't sure I could keep. I never felt like that with Alex, James. I always knew that what we shared wouldn't last. He never belonged to me. Not the way you do.

Megan Hart

#2. I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.

Cora Pearl

#3. I am happy with my family and my colleagues and want to continue making my own kind of cinema. I have never belonged to any camp and have no friends in the industry. Most of them will pay lip service, but when it comes to doing, they tend to shy away.

Sunny Deol

#4. His words burned to my very core as I drew a horrible conclusion. None of it had been real. I'd fallen in love with a boy who'd never belonged to me in the first place.

G.J. Walker-Smith

#5. My Ty. My Ty. Christ. Fuck. Christ. Two words. Just two words. Walker had no clue until that moment that two words could mean so fucking much. He'd never belonged to anyone. He'd never belonged anywhere. Never thought he wanted to. Until he heard those two words.

Kristen Ashley

#6. It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.

Dodie Smith

#7. Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Anne Rice

#8. The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Martha Beck

#9. I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Marilyn Monroe

#10. She cried for the girl who had never belonged. A girl who tried so hard, harder than anyone else, and still never had anything to show for it.

Marissa Meyer

#11. One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'

Margaret Thatcher

#12. Priests, professors, masters, you are wrong to turn me over to Justice. I have never belonged to this people. I have never been Christian. I am of the race that sang under torture. I do not understand your laws. I have no moral sense, I am a brute.

Arthur Rimbaud

#13. I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

Albert Einstein

#14. I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

Siobhan Fahey

#15. I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still felt like a risk to me. So I chickened out.

John D'Agata

#16. I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

William Odom

#17. I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.

Steven Spielberg

#18. I spent my childhood being cut down to fit a space where I never belonged in the first place. I spent the rest of my life searching for someone to tell me what to do with the scars.

Marta Maranda

#19. I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

Hans Frank

#20. Ronan taught me that children do not exist to honor their parents; their parents exist to honor them. [ ... ] Ronan was mine but he never belonged to me. This is not an issue of ownership. A child is not a couch.

Emily Rapp

#21. It's always been 'go'. It's always been 'lie' and 'hide' and 'disappear'. I've never belonged anywhere or had the right to call anything my own. But Coach gave me keys to the court, and you told me to stay. You gave me a key and called it home. I haven't had a home since my parents died.

Nora Sakavic

#22. I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers.

Shelley Hennig

#23. I always thought competition was for horse races and it never belonged in art. I never felt that competitive with other girl singers, really.

Linda Ronstadt

#24. It's not fair . . . She's mine . . . She's always been mine," George whined deliriously.
"No she's not," Jason spat. And then, he took the triptych from Mr. Ellis's hands. And looking into her eyes, handed it to Winn. "She never belonged to anyone but herself.

Kate Noble

#25. Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

John O'Hara

#26. A snowman in a town where it didn't snow, made by a boy who couldn't wait to leave, and given to a girl who had never belonged.

Robyn Schneider

#27. I've never belonged anywhere.

Kevin Brooks

#28. I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude - a feeling which increases with the years.

Albert Einstein

#29. I never belonged anywhere until I met you.

Ann Aguirre

#30. Do you not understand?" he whispered. "I have never belonged to anyone. Not since I was a child. It is a lonely thing to be unclaimed by another. The idea that I could be yours seduces me more than you can know.

Kristen Callihan

#31. We've never really been apart. From the moment you bumped into me in those woods, we've belonged to each other ... I don't care if we've grown up. We're still Knox and City at the core, and we'll always love each other. You know why?" I leaned in to whisper ... "Because we don't know how to stop.

Linda Kage

#32. Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.

Yasmin Mogahed

#33. He controlled her with each thrust, damn near stamping his name on her privates-in all caps, bolded, so she'd never forget who it belonged to.

Delaney Diamond

#34. I'm not like you, Mal. I never really fit in the way you did. I never really belonged anywhere."
"You belonged with me.

Leigh Bardugo

#35. Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie
could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

Mark Twain

#36. There was a silence on the tors that belonged to another age; an age that is past and vanished as though it had never been, an age when man did not exist, but pagan footsteps trod upon the hills. And there was a stillness in the air, and a stranger, older peace, that was not the peace of God.

Daphne Du Maurier

#37. At one point, a man who looked not much older than me said that though he loved his family, he'd never felt like he belonged. "Maybe it's not them, and it's not their fault," he said. "Maybe it's me.

Victoria Patterson

#38. Jace was his, no one else's. Jace always
belonged to him from the first moment
he'd laid eyes on him. Colt had claimed Jace then and never truly let him go!

Kindle Alexander

#39. They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.

E. M. Forster

#40. Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

J. Maarten Troost

#41. He and she belonged to each other for always: he understood that now. The impulse which had first drawn them together again, in spite of reason, in spite of themselves almost, that deep-seated instinctive need that each had of the other, would never again wholly let them go.

Edith Wharton

#42. His fingers brushed the heartsfire earring on his left ear. In all the time of their estrangement, he had never removed it, wanting to feel that he still belonged to someone even if that someone no longer cared to own him.

Eresse

#43. Does it sting like this because I've been robbed or because it was never mine to steal? ... Maybe an idea, like love, cannot ever be stolen away, just as it cannot ever have belonged to me and only me.

Kristopher Jansma

#44. She felt really alone now. But here's the thing- suddenly she felt as though she belonged inside the aloneness, and that feeling made her whisper aloud, "I never have before. I've never felt at home with myself.

Hale Shannon

#45. How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?

Rebecca Serle

#46. though you have never posessed me/ I have belonged to you since the beginning of time

Mina Loy

#47. I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.

Abraham Verghese

#48. What Brother Pepe saw in Edward Bonshaw was a man who looked like he belonged - like a man who had never felt at home, but who'd suddenly found his place in the scheme of things.

John Irving

#49. To touch him in ways he'd never been touched before, this person who, beyond all logic, was the other half of her. Who belonged to her. Who was her soulmate.

L.J.Smith

#50. I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

Ethel Waters

#51. A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.

Catherine Anderson

#52. I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#53. Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

Thomas A. Edison

#54. I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Maximillian Degenerez

#55. All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars (p. 38).

Hermann Hesse

#56. Vex had never believed in soul mates, but as her soul touched Zhubaal's, she knew the truth.
They belonged together.

Larissa Ione

#57. I once fell in love with a man only because we both belonged to that large and secret club of children who had "crazy mothers." We traded stories of the shameless houses to which we could never invite our friends.

Gloria Steinem

#58. Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.

Albert Einstein

#59. I let you go, Harold, because you were not mine and you never would be. You belonged to your wife.

Rachel Joyce

#60. I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belonged where I was, so I went to live overseas.

Laura Prepon

#61. It was just that his heart belonged to someone else, and they both knew it. They never spoke of it, but it was true just the same.

Kristan Higgins

#62. This beautiful, perfect in every way, eternal creature was finally about to be his forever. The smile that crept onto his lips felt unreal, like he'd stolen something that should never have belonged to him, but had come to be his most treasured possession.

Kiersten Fay

#63. Finding a way to move on from him would be hard. I might never accomplish it. I wouldn't chase him, but I would mourn him. As if he were dead, my heart would weaken, and I'd embrace the pain and sadness. Until Gannon, I'd never been truly happy. No one had made me feel complete or like I belonged.

Abbi Glines

#64. But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in crooked ways.

Kate DiCamillo

#65. Generally, that humble piece of furniture placed on the front veranda of the house officially belonged to the man of the household; the women never slept on it.

Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

#66. The city had been built by people from innumerable elsewheres. It was a chaos of cultures ordered only by its long streets. It belonged to no one and never would, or maybe it was a million cities in one, unique to each of its inhabitants, belonging to whoever walked its streets.

Andre Alexis

#67. I belong to you. I've belonged to you since the beginning, since before I even knew that I did," he rambles. "I'll never hurt you again. I'd rather die than to hurt you

L. H. Cosway

#68. I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.

Garry Wills

#69. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry.

Fernando Pessoa

#70. She missed her mum every day, and it never seemed to get any easier - not until she met Dale. He made her life brighter, making it easier for her to leave her troubled past where it belonged, behind her. The pain never went away , but it faded into the background when she was with him.

Kat Green

#71. When I was growing up, I never felt that I belonged anywhere because we never lived in a house for more than three months. That's all I knew, and that's why I don't really belong anywhere.

Peter Doig

#72. I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18.

Jessica Lange

#73. I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.

Kenneth Williams

#74. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

J.K. Rowling

#75. They were daughters of the sky. Luck belonged to them - never bad, often good, sometimes hard.

C.J. Milbrandt

#76. I belong to you, Jess. My heart has belonged to you since I scooped you up off the ground over six years ago. That has never changed.

Kathryn Perez

#77. That the one could intensify the other had never occurred to them; and since the embodiment came before the recognition of the truth, it seemed a discovery that belonged to them alone.

John Edward Williams

#78. I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.

Mark Bradford

#79. Years later, Tony would discover that writers never felt they belonged anywhere. That was one of the reasons they became writers. It was strange, however, failing to belong even at a party full of outsiders.

Nick Hornby

#80. However much the universe and its mysteries might call him, this was where he was born and where he belonged. It would never satisfy him, yet always he would return. He had gone half-way across the Galaxy to learn this simple truth.

Arthur C. Clarke

#81. I've never had a home before." That must have been all the sweets talking; I'd never have told him otherwise. "I mean, staying with Li, I never felt like I belonged. That's all."
Sam touched my wrist, making me shiver. "You always have a home with me.

Jodi Meadows

#82. I never really felt like I belonged in California.

Molly Ringwald

#83. Then I realized to whom I belonged was never mine.
That day, this world became the Earth for me.
People became creatures from the science book,
Heart became the Pear shaped instrument that pumps blood and hope became the only myth out of all the lies said by the life about living ...

Himanshu Chhabra

#84. She never felt like she belonged anywhere,except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.

Rainbow Rowell

#85. The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a lot of kids said made him hard to understand, although to be fair some of these kids would have never understood algebra anyway.

Dave Barry

#86. [-] writers never felt they belonged anywhere. That was one of the reasons they became writers.

Nick Hornby

#87. All that belonged to him, Dick, but he would never have it.Why should that sonofabitch have everything, while he had nothing?

Truman Capote

#88. I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted.
"Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love.

Anne Rice

#89. Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn't, and what one "would" have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things.

Henry James

#90. There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#91. Yes," he assured her without hesitation. "I thought I was broken too, that I'd never trust women, but I had it all wrong. I wasn't broken at all. I was just waiting for you. It's always been yours; even before we met, it belonged to you.

Kele Moon

#92. I've never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I've always belonged to what isn't where I am and to what I could never be. Whatever isn't mine, no matter how base, has always had poetry for me.

Fernando Pessoa

#93. Ruin still used Reen's voice - it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing ... it was like finding out that her reflection really belonged to someone else, and that she'd never actually seen herself.

Brandon Sanderson

#94. Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.

L.M. Montgomery

#95. I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again.

Leigh Bardugo

#96. And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love.

Mary Balogh

#97. I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.

Heather Demetrios

#98. I just never felt like I belonged anywhere. I always had a stick with a little knapsack attached.

Michelle Rodriguez

#99. I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.

Anthony Hopkins