Quotes About Belonging

Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost.

1st KEEPER: Who said nobody and nothing could ever belong to us? 2nd KEEPER: What a breach between heart and head! 1st KEEPER: What a contradiction! 2nd KEEPER: He doesn't believe what he thinks or think what he believes.

He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here.

EDMUND: It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a sea gull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death!

As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death.

EDMUND: [...] A fost o mare greÈ™eal? c? m-am n?scut om. M-aÈ™ fi descurcat mai bine ca pesc?ruÈ™ ori peÈ™te. AÈ™a, o s? fiu mereu un str?in care nu se simte niciodat? în largul lui, care nu doreÈ™te cu adev?rat È™i nu e dorit cu adev?rat, care nu poate s?-È™i g?seasc? niciodat? locul È™i care trebuie s? fie tot timpul un pic indr?gostit de moarte. (Eugene O'Neill - Lungul drum al zilei c?tre noapte)

The hermit crab doesn't look too closely, he just crawls into a shell that isn't his. But remains a hermit. That's my hang-up: if I leave my shell, I can't crawl into yours.

The problem has not been finding a place where I belong, which is how a children's book might tell it, but of finding ways of insisting on belonging nowhere.

So you would kill Old Ireland?" Anna Livia said. "You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn't be.

It's very common for people coming from a broken home to want material possessions around them. They are building their own nests.

It's very common for people coming from a broken home to want material possessions around them. They are building their own nests.

As my father is British, I am seriously considering renouncing my American citizenship.

I always felt so different - I felt I was in the wrong shell.

Inside the system I was treated very differently, as though I was an oddball. I felt I wasn't good enough. Now, thank God, I think it's okay to be different.

I am normal, it's okay to be me, it's all right

It's still home, Cager, and there's something about home, no matter how untidy we've left it.

Here's why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

Lepiej zalicza? siÄ™ do niektórych ni? do wszystkich.

Te aseguro, Ciri, que es mejor pertenecer a los algunos que no a los todos.

I'm riding with them because I am a servile golem. Because I'm a wisp of oakum blown by the wind along the highway. Tell me, where should I go? And for what? At least here some people have gathered with whom I have something to talk about. People who don't break off their conversations when I approach. People who, though they may not like me, say it to my face, and don't throw stones from behind a fence.

Wygodniej by? Polakiem, bo skoro si? nim urodzi?e?, to masz wszystko na tacy. Masz gotowy patriotyzm, wszystkie odpowiedzi i pytania, nie musisz kszta?towa? si? w ?aden sposób, bo ci wystarcza ta polska to?samo??, do której zreszt? nie przy?o?y?e? r?ki. A czy jeste? ?wini?, czy zrobi?e? cokolwiek dobrego w tym ?yciu – to ju? niewa?ne.

A my nie byli?my dla nich wcale zwiastunami zmian, z t? bezcelow? wypraw?, blad? skór?, z butami Salomona, aparatami Pentaxa, z tym kompletnym brakiem uzasadnienia dla w?asnej tutaj obecno?ci, z ca?ym tym kaprysem. Przyj?li nas tak, jakby?my byli dzie?mi tej samej przestrzeni, mieszka?cami tej samej opowie?ci, która trwa od niepami?tnych czasów.

If you join some kind of association, your own true way of thinking gets shackled. You do things just to give yourself that feeling of ease.