Best Not Belonging Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“She stood awkwardly for another endless moment -- a total and obvious outsider, even though this was her house where she lived. It felt like she didn't belong anywhere. It felt like she probably never would.”

Home Loneliness Isolation Belonging Outsider Not Belonging

Book:Top Ten

Source: Top Ten

“When you've never felt like you really belonged somewhere, it's almost impossible to know what it will feel like to finally feel at home.”

Different Home Acceptance Belonging Trans Lgbtqia Trans Rights Not Belonging Lgbta

Book:Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

Source: Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

“They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am wandering along the periphery. I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. . . . There are moments I just sit in my frame, float in my tank, ride in my car and say nothing, think nothing that connects me to anything at all.”

Loneliness Misunderstood Unnoticed Disconnection Not Belonging Peripheral

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“Υποσχέθηκε στον εαυτό του πως απ' εδώ και μπρος θα γινόταν σαν όλους τους άλλους. Έτσι θα ήταν όλοι ευχαριστημένοι.”

Aloneness Uniqueness Of Individual Not Belonging

Book:JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

Source: JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

“When a mood of "not belonging" is haunting our mind and tolling the bell for relief or happiness, life may be like a scar on the canvas of our dreams. Now is the time to wake up and slip back to the basics, in the vein of crawling back to mum's lap. ("The grass was greener over there")”

Happiness Dreams Mood Scar Haunting Basics Green Grass Not Belonging Toll The Bell Mum S Lap

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure, or a scar in the canvas of a vacant environment. The attachment to the little things, though, and the fleeting moments of every day can confer connection and expectation. ("The grass was greener over there")”

Happiness Failure Connection Attachment Scar Expectation Vacant Fleeting Moments Not Belonging Toll The Bell

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“You always made me feel like I belonged even if I know that I don’t.”

Belonging Not Belonging Feeling Out Of Place

Author:Heidi Dischler

“This dinner was cold and clinical and he couldn’t help but think that Haley didn’t belong.”

Dinner Not Belonging Playing For Keeps

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“I tried to imagine what it would have been like to study at such a place, to walk across marble floors each morning and, day after day, come to associate learning with beauty. But my imagination failed me. I could only imagine the school as I was experiencing it now, as a kind of museum, a relic from someone else’s life”

Displacement Mismatch Foreign Not Belonging

Book:Educated

Source: Educated

“He doesn't normally wish he had friends, but when this thought comes to him, he does. It might be helpful to know a man of his age and experience who could tell him whether his troubles were benign or terminal.”

Loners Not Belonging Relateable Autistic Coded Characters

Book:William

Source: William

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

Ifs Feels Feelings Hurt Terrible Shoes Belonging Awkward It Hurts Not Belonging

Book:The Romeo and Juliet Code

Source: The Romeo and Juliet Code

“All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.”

People Knows Men Different Universe Given Higher Standing Errors Command Temples Belonging Centre Sage Deaf Thyself Wisest Know Thyself Delphi Not Belonging Standing Apart

Book:On aggression

Source: On aggression

“Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.”

Groups Childhood Training Notion Excellent Obsessed Belonging Happy Childhood Not Belonging Belonging To A Group

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

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

Littles Feelings Dog Belonging Resentment Underdog Harbour Not Belonging

Author:Asa Larsson

“Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even, sometimes, criticised for looking at my country through Western eyes. And in the Western media I'm portrayed as belonging to the East.”

Country Sometimes Eye Courses Sides Media Western East Belonging Turkeys Not Belonging Western Media

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry as well as prose. But I actually hate doing it. It is a thankless, mind-numbing process, additionally unpleasant for me because it reminds me of my ambiguous status of not belonging anywhere.”

Writing Mind Wells Done Hate Language Stuff Process My Own Particular Prose Belonging Translate English Language Back And Forth Ambiguous Ukrainian Numbing Thankless Not Belonging

Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky

“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.”

Sometimes Feelings Speak Worthy Belonging Sensibility Hostage Not Belonging Worthy Things

Author:Anthony Minghella

“Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should be one way, but I'm not." Toby stared at her. "I hear that." He sighed. "There are all these perfect people here. And... it's like, if you're not one of the,. then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just as messed up as we are.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Feels Should Kind Sometimes Used Perfect Normal Used To Be One Way Messed Up Flawless Toby Not Belonging

Book:Flawless: Number 2 in series

Source: Flawless: Number 2 in series

“I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.”

Knows Body Shame Longing Disappear Being True Burning Belonging Unwelcome Not Belonging

Author:Warsan Shire