Quotes About Belonging

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris.

In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole…But nothing exists apart from the whole!

He who seeks may easily get lost himself. All solitude is wrong: so say the herd. And long did you belong to the herd.

Not how one soul comes close to another, but how it moves away, shows me their kinship and how much they belong together.

He who seeketh may easily get lost himself. All isolation is wrong": so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. The voice of the herd will still echo in thee. And when thou sayest, "I have no longer a conscience in common with you," then will it be a plaint and a pain.

Das Individuum musste immer darum kämpfen, nicht von der Horde überwältigt zu werden. Wer es versucht, wird sehr oft einsam sein und manchmal voller Furcht. Doch kein Preis ist zu hoch für das Privileg, sich selbst zu gehören.

What we eat is an essential part of who we are and how we define ourselves.

Knowing belongs to man's intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

Internet friends are real friends

Quand on a été séparé de sa patrie, on comprend mieux encore combien elle vous est chère.

Some family we're born with. Some we adopt along the way. But they're all precious. Every one of them.

Queer Ducks flock together.

I saw the other loners the way everyone else did-as unappealing, as to be avoided at all costs. If I hung out with one of them, I thought, my unpopular status would get worse, not better, because it would be magnified by association.

and one knows, after a long time of solitude, after the many steps taken away from one's kind, toward the kingdom of strangers, the hard prayer inside one's own singing is to come back, if one can, to one's own, a world almost lost, in the exile that deepens, when one has lived a long time alone.

I was born in the U.S., and that's who I rep. Although when the winter Olympics come around, I'm pretty partial to Norway's success and what they do.

Regardless of what you look like, regardless of where you come from, you can be involved in winter sports.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

We're wired somehow to want to be part of something bigger. And we quest to understand what our role is.

Growing up, all I did was write about the fact that I'm from where I'm from. I was a big champion of where I was from and Wisconsin in general, and the Midwest.

I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back.

In New York, I run into Packers fans who have never lived in Wisconsin, Canadiens fans who have never lived in La Belle Province, Celtics fans who admire Russell and Bird and Pierce but have no trace of a Boston accent.