Quotes About Belonging To No One

#1. Artemis is freedom - wild, untrammelled, aloof from all entanglements. She is a huntress, a dancer, the goddess of nature and wildness, a virgin physically and, even more important, a virgin psychologically, inviolable, belonging to no one, defined by no relationship, confined by no bond.

Arianna Huffington

#2. In Dostoevsky, two thoughts are already two people, for there are no thoughts belonging to no one and every thought represents an entire person. This

Mikhail Bakhtin

#3. She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

Lauren DeStefano

#4. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66]

Julian Barnes

#5. The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club! ...

Eugenia Sheppard

#6. The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.

Henri Nouwen

#7. I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

Antony Sher

#8. When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

David Mazzucchelli

#9. By saying that someone becomes the owner of something, we are referring to a market transaction, while by saying that something is a good belonging to someone, we emphasize the fact that it has been incorporated into the world of someone, of which it has become an integral part.

Michel Callon

#10. I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

Alice Walker

#11. Unity is a spiritual quality. It's the sweet feelings of peace and purpose that come from belonging to a family ... It's wanting the best for others as much as you want it for yourself ... It's knowing that no one is out to harm you. It means you will never be lonely.

Mary N. Cook

#12. Lowell is my home. It is where I drew my first breath. It is where I will always derive a sense of place and a sense of belonging

Paul Tsongas

#13. To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.

George Schaller

#14. Man cannot reach the shrine if he does not make the pilgrimage.
Languages are jealous. They do not give up their best treasures to those who try to deal with them through an intermediary belonging to an alien rival.

Rabindranath Tagore

#15. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat.

Nikki Rowe

#16. Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

Brene Brown

#17. No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.

Catherynne M Valente

#18. I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France ... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

J.M.G. Le Clezio

#19. By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

Susan Lieberman

#20. [I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#21. It is a distinction, instead, between two entirely different kinds of reality, belonging to two entirely disparate conceptual orders. In fact, the very division between monotheism and polytheism is in many cases a confusion of categories.

David Bentley Hart

#22. One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.

Vladimir Lenin

#23. A nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak

Alexis De Tocqueville

#24. Every text participates in one or several genres, there is no genreless text; there is always a genre and genres, yet such participation never amounts to belonging.

Jacques Derrida

#25. 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

#26. New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

James F. Cooper

#27. But there is no such thing as individual knowledge, a particular knowledge belonging to one special person or group. Knowledge is the sea of humanity, the field of humanity, the general condition of human existence.

Yukio Mishima

#28. Everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else ...

Aldous Huxley

#29. No one really belongs; at least not in this world. If there were a heaven, maybe there, but, even if there were, in it would be the souls who could bear witness to the undeniable cruelty of life, the poverty of the unwanted.

Kenneth Eade

#30. The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

David Hume

#31. She liked the idea of a place belonging to the cows, no ownership of human ego.

Aporva Kala

#32. Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human race. My legs make me who I am; they create my solitary path. My arms make me who I belong to; they connect me to the world.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#33. American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

Wallace Stegner

#34. But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.

Orson Scott Card

#35. [G]enius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity . . .

Cesare Lombroso

#36. The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

Kalle Lasn

#37. The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

Asa Larsson

#38. I was drunk with belonging.

Ian Morgan Cron

#39. One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.

Otto Wallach

#40. I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish speaking race ... After all, who remembers today the extermination of the Armenians?

Adolf Hitler

#41. In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

Vikram Seth

#42. Yet there are moments when I feel a continent apart, when their belonging seems easy and unforced and my own is only pantomime.

Nayomi Munaweera

#43. It sounds as if you are trapped in a cycle of thinking about yourself and how you don't belong in the world.

Dan Brown

#44. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold

#45. Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.

Robert Venosa

#46. I have my husband and children near me in Rome, and I feel this is where we are temporarily belonging. But personally, all my life, I have felt the absence of a sense of history.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#47. Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

Isabella Rossellini

#48. At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul then comes in to a free and fluent universe of spiritual belonging.

John O'Donohue

#49. To understand the harvest of your soul against the background of seasonal rhythm should give you a sense of quiet delight at the arrival of this time in your life. It should give you strength and a sense of how the deeper belonging of your soul-world will be revealed to you.

John O'Donohue

#50. The body of work I create combines traditional storylines and postmodern narrative strategies to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics and conflict, as well as the push towards - and resistance against - modernization.

Aman Mojadidi

#51. The central awareness is a profound sense of oneness with all,
a sense of belonging to the universe as a whole

Alexis Karpouzos

#52. Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

Shane Claiborne

#53. Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one.

Patricia Briggs

#54. That, I think, i a truer mark of belonging somewhere - being willing to do anything, everything, that needs to be done, regardless of what I want.

Sara Raasch

#55. Those who feel lovable, who love, and who experience belonging simply believe they are worthy of love and belonging. I often say that Wholeheartedness is like the North Star: We never really arrive, but we certainly know if we're headed in the right direction.

Brene Brown

#56. Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.

Bryant McGill

#57. Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Alexander Theroux

#58. Being left out was a kind of freedom...

Lauren Kate