Top 100 You Don't Belong Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Do not go where you don't belong. I scoffed. That sounded like an invitation if I ever heard one.
Dinah Katt
#4. Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths
Charles Spurgeon
#5. [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
#6. I went to school to be a psychiatrist. That's where I was going until I had a teacher-student conference with one of my teachers and there were film school pamphlets, and he said, "You don't belong here. Get out. Go to film school."
Bryan Fuller
#7. If you want a show to succeed, you're going to have to have a certain amount of people watch who are non-black and non-Latino. If you can't cross over, you don't belong on TV. That's not just me saying it. That's just the way it is.
George Lopez
#8. Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You don't belong here. That's not how we do things." I think that's problematic.
John D'Agata
#9. But you don't belong here! You're dead!" I sobbed against his chest.
"Zo, babe, this is the Otherworld. It's not me who doesn't belong here-it's you.
P.C. Cast
#10. You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.
Trent Reznor
#11. See - this book belongs to you,' Hannah said sweetly.
'No young lady,' the birdman said. 'It belongs to you - but you don't belong to it.'
He leaned in very close to her.
'You belong to you,' he said.
Simon Van Booy
#12. I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.
Ben Howard
#13. If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.
Vince Lombardi
#14. This is why I spent so long fighting my feelings for you. You don't belong in my world. You're too good for it. For me. I thought I was ready to be who you needed me to be, but I fell at the first hurdle.
Siobhan Davis
#15. Where do you go if you don't belong anywhere? If I wanted to run away then why come to the city? Because this is the place to hide. This is the place to be invisible. Anyone can be no one here, and I am someone that wants to be no one.
Steven Wilson
#16. Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like.
Claire Denis
#17. You don't belong here if you are unhappy," she continued. "Your mother makes you hateful, and you make her hateful. It doesn't matter if she's your mother. It's an accident of birth. It doesn't have to mean so much." ... "You belong where you have the best chance of being happy ...
Laura Moriarty
#18. The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.
Garrison Keillor
#19. If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.
Peter Morgan
#20. You can't choose where you belong, and where you don't. But what if the place you don't belong is the only place you have left?
Stuart Neville
#21. Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.
O.R. Melling
#22. I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.
Sonia Manzano
#23. Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don't fit where you don't belong
Richard G. Scott
#24. Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.
Agatha Christie
#25. If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.
Brian Redman
#26. Football is about winning; it's that simple. You have to love what you do. If you're here for the money, than you don't belong here.
Vinny Testaverde
#27. We don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire - we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are. In Canada, we give directions more freely - to anywhere, to anyone who asks.
John Irving
#28. I know it's painful growing,
I bet the changes was painful too.
But nothing is as painful as being somewhere you don't belong.
Obviously.
Touaxia Vang
#29. That's because you're mine, and I'm not watching you laughing with him down there! You don't belong to him, Maddie! You never have and you never fucking will!
Emma Hart
#30. It's better to be hungry than to be lonely - and i'm not talking about the loneliness that we choose but the loneliness that we are forced to accept - , it's like you don't belong to this world anymore!
Paulo Coelho
#31. But if you act like you don't belong, if you act like you're apologetic for your own self, then people will start to treat you that way, too.
Hanya Yanagihara
#32. All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.
George Michael
#33. When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.
Veronica Randolph Batterson
#34. You don't belong in this world, Abbey. You are not made for the dark.
F.J. Gale
#36. I want you to let go of all of your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that ever made you feel like you don't belong.
Lady Gaga
#37. As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
Molly Ivins
#38. When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.
Gloria Steinem
#39. He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.
Terry Pratchett
#41. You should do what makes you happy. You are smart. You are beautiful. You can do anything. You don't belong here. You belong out there,
A Meredith Walters
#42. And how I flattered myself
From time to time with proving to myself
Nothing in you could be unknown to me.
You don't belong to the mind's calculations,
And you disproved each of my demonstrations,
Since to be unexpected is your truth.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#43. When you don't belong anywhere it doesn't matter where you are or where you go, if you stay or move on. You become a leaf floating with the will of the wind.
Chloe Thurlow
#44. When you come back to a country that you've left, you're in a very peculiar situation because, in a way, you don't belong to that country any more, even though when I'm in America I feel I don't belong there either.
Gabriel Byrne
#45. You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.
Jacob K. Javits
#46. When you feel like you don't belong...
You haven't found who you belong to...
Lana Summers
#47. There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#48. Further along is fairly specific compared to other New Hampshire forms of directions; we don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire - we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are.
John Irving
#49. You don't belong to him, you belong to me." "That's insane too!" "Baby, you told me so your fuckin' self." "Sexual coercion.
Kristen Ashley
#50. Because I wanna make sure you don't belong to anyone else before we move forward.
K. Langston
#51. For an atheist you will be always considered as a human no matter what, but for a religious if you don't belong with them, you are always an infidel.
M.F. Moonzajer
#52. Just because you've never been somewhere doesn't mean you don't belong. Just because it's not in your job description doesn't mean you can't do it. Only you can really decide what league you really belong in.
Jessica Hagy
#53. There is no better or worse, inferior or superior. It's figuring out where you're meant to be and then getting there. This is true in every aspect of your life. If you fight to stay somewhere you don't belong, it will never be good and never get better.
Donna Augustine
#54. If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#55. Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong.
Glen Duncan
#56. There are times you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan ...
Laura Brown
#57. You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.
Tama J. Kieves
#58. The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.
Claudia Rankine
#59. Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.
Jon Crosby
#60. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.
Benjamin Hoff
#61. The reason you're being treated so badly is because you don't belong in Mimbeye. As long as you're there, you'll experience pain. If you want to escape it, you should come where you belong.
Liz Grace Davis
#62. Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.
Stephenie Meyer
#63. You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.
Anne Parillaud
#64. The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.
Rumi
#65. Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise of sleep. Gravity is a crushing force bearing down on her chest, shattering wings and refusing her flight. A whisper in her mind. You don't belong here.
Laura Kreitzer
#66. I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)
Maria Semple
#67. It doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I've done - it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me.
Paula Hawkins
#68. My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!
Alicia Witt
#69. That's how envy works: the better things are, the worse they are, because they don't belong to you.
William Deresiewicz
#70. Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.
Bob Dylan
#71. Zarathustra: Do you have words? Do your words belong to you?
Giannina: No, my answer is no. I have no property in the dictionary. Words are anonymous like the disenfranchised masses that haven't been weighed - or named - or framed. My words belong to those who don't belong.
Giannina Braschi
#72. I'm gonna kiss you, Lily Parker. Because you're the sweetest and most beautiful girl I've ever met, and if I don't I might die. But once I do, you're gonna belong to me.
Alexa Riley
#73. If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
William Zinsser
#74. If i would ever fall in love ... I'm sure I would want that person to belong to me. I'd make them all mine ... but I might ruin them in the process. So I'm never going to fall in love. I don't need love right now. I have friends with the same purpose as me. I have all of you. -Rei
Naoko Takeuchi
#75. I don't belong to you, Derek." "Oh?" He challenged me. "I belong with you.
Bella Forrest
#76. When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?
Margaret Cho
#77. The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Ethel Barrymore
#78. The funny and the most beautiful thing about LOVE is..
you don't need any one else to fall in love with,, you can love yourself, the ambiance
around you, the things which belong to you, and even those which don't..
Sanhita Baruah
#79. When you really care for someone those feelings don't just belong to you.
If she accepts your feelings your hearts will be connected.
Yukiru Sugisaki
#80. The intellectual is called on the carpet ... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you.
Herbert Marcuse
#81. You don't need a scale to tell you whether you're allowed to like yourself today. You are. You belong here. No matter what you weigh, you deserve joy and happiness.
Geneen Roth
#82. Take for yourself what you can, and don't be ruled by others; to belong to oneself - the whole savour of life lies in that.
Ivan Turgenev
#83. I was feeling right at home all by myself. The woods can be a bit strange. It takes a long time to feel you belong there and then you never again really belong in town. It's a choice made for you by your brain at a moment you don't notice.
Jim Harrison
#84. He's looking at me, torn and passionate, and I don't know how I thought I was truly alive before I met him. This is what love feels like. To no longer belong to yourself. To be pulled from what you know into what you feel. No wonder people live and die for this feeling.
Leisa Rayven
#85. But don't you see, I say, I don't care. I don't care what you've done or how bad you are. Edward, we belong together. We both know it. Now I know your worst secrets and you know mine. Isn't that what you've always wanted? For us to be completely honest with each other?
J.P. Delaney
#86. You. Are. Mine ... I don't care how wrong we are for each other. I don't care that I'll never be good enough for you or that we're risking everything to be together. Your mother would never approve. Whatever. Fuck it all. You are fucking mine. And I'm yours. And we belong together.
Linda Kage
#87. Then it's too bad I don't belong to you.
Maya Banks
#88. The fact that I
am writing to you
in English
already falsifies what I
wanted to tell you.
My subject:
how to explain to you that I
don't belong to English
though I belong nowhere else
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#89. I don't care what party you belong to or what your background is. If you believe we are headed in the wrong direction, and believe there needs to be a check and balance on the President and Congress, then join my campaign.
Timothy Griffin
#90. Really, it's amazing. You are his other half, Alexandria, You are fated to be with him. You belong to him."
It felt like something sat heavy on my chest. "Oh.Oh.No."
Seth frowned at me. "You don't have to sound so disgusted.
Jenny Trout
#91. You don't know where you belong ...
You need something to swear to,
As you fol-low blindly along;
You just need to belong somehow.
Cyndi Lauper
#92. Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?
Barbara Kingsolver
#93. You don't really choose where you're born, but in our hearts, we can choose where we belong to ...
Daniel Matsunaga
#94. When you belong to someone . . . you don't kiss anyone else. You don't kiss his enemy. You don't lie to him. Betray him.
Katy Evans
#95. You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.
Juan Marichal
#96. After a minute he said, It's like-I don't know how to describe it, but it's like I belong with Jade. She really sees me. I mean, not the outside stuff. She sees me inside, and she likes me. Nobody else has ever done that ... except you.
L.J.Smith
#97. You are of all the dearest to me. But don't adopt your life to mine. Be strong enough that you no longer need me. Then we will belong to a shared freedom, then we will belong to each other
Franz Schulze
#99. If you have to beg someone to be in your life, they don't belong there.
Mandy Hale
#100. You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you - draw and paint your fear and anxiety.
Sol LeWitt
