The Feeling Of Not Belonging Quotes

#1. It was the feeling of not belonging, and longing for your familiar couch and your familiar TV with all those comforting TV people who couldn't see you.

Deb Caletti

#2. The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Anthony Minghella

#3. 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

#4. I've been dropped off in a place I do not belong anymore. Certainly not here with Mother and Daddy, ...

Kathryn Stockett

#5. The inexplicable is its own form of freedom. Belonging is not a form of restriction. We can't name the feeling but we can sing along.

Carrie Brownstein

#6. Witchling. Elide stared after her. She had likely just made the biggest mistake of her life, but ... it was strange. Strange, that feeling of belonging.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.

Emil Cioran

#8. Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

Phoebe Stone

#9. There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#10. Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging.

Brene Brown

#11. As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.

Matthew Hayden

#12. Why can't life be like this? Human beings in all their magnificence. Working to find that moment of pride. That one second of excellence at being alive...The feeling of belonging not just to oneself but to the entire universe.

Ron Jones

#13. Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.

Joyce Rachelle

#14. I hate feeling like I don't belong.

Erin Watt

#15. Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#16. People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

Linus Torvalds

#17. I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.

Petra Collins

#18. 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

#19. 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