Top 100 Quotes About Not Belonging Somewhere
#1. 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
#2. American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
Wallace Stegner
#3. 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
#4. [G]enius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity . . .
Cesare Lombroso
#5. The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.
Kalle Lasn
#6. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
Vikram Seth
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. She liked the idea of a place belonging to the cows, no ownership of human ego.
Aporva Kala
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. The central awareness is a profound sense of oneness with all,
a sense of belonging to the universe as a whole
Alexis Karpouzos
#21. Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
Shane Claiborne
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.
Bryant McGill
#26. Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
Alexander Theroux
#27. Being left out was a kind of freedom...
Lauren Kate
#28. Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.
Robert Venosa
#29. The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club! ...
Eugenia Sheppard
#30. Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
Brene Brown
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.
Alice Walker
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
Antony Sher
#40. The great # conversion called for by Jesus is to move from belonging to the world to belonging to God.
Henri Nouwen
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
Susan Lieberman
#44. [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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. A nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak
Alexis De Tocqueville
#48. The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.
Wyndham Lewis
#49. Possessiveness was hot. A man who staked his claim, marked his territory. It wasn't about lack of trust. It was about belonging to someone. It was about them having pride in that and wanting everyone to know it, especially you.
Kristen Ashley
#50. And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody.
Amy Tan
#51. ...You would be 'my boy', belonging to me alone, and I'd be faithful to you."
"Homecoming
Keegan Kennedy
#52. Helping someone feel they belong is a magic all its own.
Seth Adam Smith
#53. Ten years have passed and every day that I walk throughout the city, I feel honored to be a part of it - and atom in the blood of a beating heart belonging to the most wonderfully diverse, smart, creative, passionate being.
Melisa Singh
#54. 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
#55. The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.
Howard Stringer
#56. Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#57. Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.
Seth Adam Smith
#58. Films are a whole new world that I'm excited to explore. But being on stage is very close to my heart; it has given me a sense of belonging. I will always try to find a way to balance both.
Nimrat Kaur
#59. Belonging to me doesn't mean I'll make you do anything, it just means I consider you mine for as long as this lasts. It means I protect you, it means I take care of you. For another man, it might mean something different. Don't confuse me with another man
Kristen Ashley
#60. I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
Eartha Kitt
#61. Realized that only one thing separated the men and women who felt a deep sense of love and belonging from the people who seem to be struggling for it. That one thing is the belief in their worthiness.
Brene Brown
#62. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
Lois Lowry
#63. Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
Ferdinand De Saussure
#64. Some women's arms are placed of exile; others are a native land.
Amin Maalouf
#65. There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments ... -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.
Alexander Hamilton
#66. That's what being a demigod was all about, not quite belonging in the mortal world or on Mount Olympus but trying to make peace with both sides of their nature.
Rick Riordan
#67. We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security ... Communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems.
John Gardner
#68. The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
Margaret Heffernan
#69. Belonging is a deep genetic drive. More and more, Cassie felt it. Safe and comfortable with the Madison House residents, her membership in the wider community was extending, weaving itself into the layers of her life. p213
Christine M. Knight
#70. See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
Robert Collier
#71. I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler
#72. Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.
James Comey
#73. I often refer to shame as the fear of disconnection
the fear of being perceived as flawed and unworthy of acceptance or belonging.
Brene Brown
#74. Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.
J. Kenner
#75. Between the last glimmer of morning stars above, and the size of the leaves beneath me, the mountains provided one last blow to my ego - my sense of belonging to this universe - and made all else seem insignificant by comparison. "It's
Hugh Howey
#76. Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.
Diane Greene
#77. Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
Ernest Holmes
#78. Sometimes it's better to go against the crowd and feel alone,
than to agree and have a false sense of belonging
Steven Aitchison
#79. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.
Stephen Chbosky
#80. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.
Brene Brown
#81. Intimacy transcends the physical. It is a feeling of closeness that isn't about proximity, but of belonging. It is a beautiful emotional space in which two become one.
Steve Maraboli
#82. Fitting is a luxury rarely given to immigrants, or children of immigrants. We are stuck in emotional purgatory. Home, somehow, is always the last place you left, and never the place you're in.
Scaachi Koul
#83. I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from different backgrounds and places. The class thing is very dominant there, but in the cultural cross-fertilization, I felt a sense of belonging.
Neneh Cherry
#84. A confused society, a deeply endangered society, is a group of people all lost in nightmarish commute. The systems, institutions, and culture of such a society discourage people from feeling the trust and belonging that come with being at home in your world. A
Ethan Nichtern
#85. Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#86. The value of art, in Strict Father morality, lies either in its moral value, its entertainment value, its economic value, or its value as a success symbol - a sign of belonging to an elite. All
George Lakoff
#87. Which is the more useful, the scientific world-view, with all its wonderful technical miracles, or the religious world-view, with its sense of purpose and belonging?
Chris Beckett
#89. -Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.
Barbara Hodgson
#90. The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
Tara Brach
#91. A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.
Chris Oyakhilome
#92. Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.
Brene Brown
#93. By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.
Rabih Alameddine
#94. The reason "belonging" was so potent, so attractive, so much a part of the human yearning, was that it also meant safety, and loyalty. If you were "one of us" you were protected.
Louise Penny
#95. I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.
Nicolas Cage
#96. You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
Sarah Dessen
#97. PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
Ambrose Bierce
#98. The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life ... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. The euro will raise the citizens' awareness of their belonging to one Europe more than any other integration step to date.
Gerhard Schroder
#100. 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
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