Quotes About Belonging

When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a thirty-five pound bag of rocks and the lost world it represents, is not such a bad thing to die for.

He simply could not imagine a time when being a Jew, or even a half Jew, was not a disability.

It must be awful to feel you're not needed.

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the One and Only to anyone.

Cu toat? iubirea multora din jur, un om poate s? se simt? singur atunci când nu e pentru nimeni "cel mai drag".

Ein Mensch kann einsam sein, obwohl er von vielen geliebt wird, wenn er nicht für einen Menschen 'der Liebste' ist.

We can never be just Dutch, or just English, or whatever, we will always be Jews as well.

Bonito pueblo el alemán, y pensar que en realidad yo también pertenezco a él! Pero no, hace mucho que Hitler nos ha convertido en apátridas. De todos modos no hay enemistad más grande en el mundo que entre los alemanes y los judíos.

We, too, shall have to move on again with our little bundles, and leave this beautiful country, which offered us such warm welcome and which now turns it back on us. I love Holland, I who, having no native country, had hoped that it might become my fatherland, and I still hope it will!

You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's one and only.

El ser humano puede sentirse solo a pesar del amor de muchos, porque para nadie es realmente el "más querido".

Bonito pueblo el alemán, y pensar que en realidad yo también pertenezco a él! Pero no, hace mucho que Hitler nos ha convertido en apátridas.

You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's 'one and only'.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

I know that sometimes these friends feel that they have been expelled from the ordinary world they lived in before and that they are now citizens of the Land of the Fucked.

Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. We're a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.

In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tree where you can build your nest and say, "This is my niche, this is where I live now, this is where I belong.

When we agree to (or get tricked into) being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved. When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was great to see, and it hurt like hell.

But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.

Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong.