Quotes About Belonging

Forget so-called peer-pressure. It's more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, excluded engagement of the self. Once we've hit this age, we will now give or take anything, wear any mask, to fit, be part-of, not be Alone, we young.

You just never quite occurred out there, kid,' deLint apprises him.

I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it.

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

He was under the impression that he belonged wherever there was something interesting to see.

There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth.

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was home

Of the unchanging things, the town in which you first saw the light is one of the most unchanging. It is always a place of monotony but at the same time, as you grow, change, go away, remember, return, and go away again, it is one of the most inexhaustibly rich places. And yet what it is is so nearly nothing, except for the dull, drab, lonely, lost objects of it, that you never know, each time you return to it, what it is that holds you so strongly to it.

Studdy was thinking that the creature was an animal; he was saying to himself that it was surely in error that she had become a member of the human race.

would have looked more at home

We are global citizens with tribal souls', said the Danish poet Piet Hein.

Names are important. They have to be neither too ordinary nor too queer, just a name, like a face, that'll go along with the crowd.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Only what is human can truly be foreign. The rest is mixed vegetation, subversive moles, and wind.

the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.

Homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man

Einer von denen, die nach Hause kommen und die dann doch nicht nach Hause kommen, weil für sie kein Zuhause mehr da ist.

I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.

Amar es desnudarse de los nombres, rezaba uno de sus poemas expropiados, pero aun así Pig se conformaba con cambiarlos. Uno le cambia el nombre a las personas y a las cosas porque así las convierte en solo suyas.

Sin el amor, soy otra vez aquel inadaptado al que le da lo mismo que le llamen rufián, desvergonzado, vándalo, vago, bueno para nada.

Uno le cambia el nombre a las personas y a las cosas porque así las convierte en sólo suyas.