Quotes About Belonging

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

Mon vœu, quand j'ai commencé à écrire, a été d'être un écrivain roumain. Comme tant d'autres avant moi, qu'ils aient été grecs (I[on] L[uca] Caragiale, Alexandru A. Philippide), arméniens (Garabet Ibr?ileanu), juifs (Mihail Sebastian, Max Blecher) ou de bien d'autres origines, depuis le Géorgien Antim Ivireanul, jusqu'au « russe » Nichita St?nescu.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.

And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine.

Flight from the communal spirit is death!

i usedta live in the world then i moved to HARLEM & my universe is now six blocks

You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.

Ben bir noktaysam... odan?n ortas?nda durdu. ?u anda odan?n kö?egenlerinin kesim noktas?nda bulunuyorum. Bütün kö?elere sesleniyorum: içinizden birinde kalm?? bir tutunamayan var m??

The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise— Into growth and destruction, Into solitude and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.

Time passed. Kevin and I became more a part of the household, familiar, accepted, accepting. That disturbed me too when I thought about it. How easily we seemed to acclimatize.

Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.

As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of "heathen houses of devil-worship," he has a simple answer: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.

No feeling was better than that of being surrounded by her own. Her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

No one should travel alone in this world.

I know that when she talks about God, she doesn't mean what I mean. I'm not sure that matters. If she stays with us, obeys our rules, joins in our joys, sorrows, and celebrations, works alongside us, it doesn't matter

Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

to someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return

I have nowhere to return to. It's like a state of imprisonment. The walls of the cell are the horizon of what I can see. Beyond them exists a world that's alien to me and doesn't belong to me. So for people like me the only thing possible is here and now, for every future is doubtful, everything yet to come is barely sketched and uncertain, like a mirage that can be destroyed by the slightest twitch of the air.