Quotes About Belonging

Philosophical concepts—those were what kept him up at night; they belonged to him.

Clearly I did not inherit whatever gene it is that makes it so that when you linger in a place you start to put down roots.

Fryderyk Chopin had always said he wanted to be buried in his native land,

For people my age, the places that they truly loved and to which they once belonged are no longer there.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,His first, best country ever is, at home.

Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Where we love is home — home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Harriet was reminded of Doamna Flöhr's claim that the exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.

Americans thought of themselves as citizens of their sovereign states, not of the nation, and La Fayette was perhaps the only real American:

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

I'll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I'll find them.

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

A man does not belong to the place he was born in, but to the place he chooses to die.

Religion was once life's central mystery, its worship life's most awesome experience, its beliefs life's broadest canopy of meaning as well as its deepest guarantee of belonging. Yet today, where religion still survives in the modern world, no matter how passionate or committed the believer, it amounts to little more than a private preference, a spare-time hobby, and a leisure pursuit.

The lights of the little café had signaled and called to his heart that, across the wasteland of the earth, there was home.

People talk of "social outcasts." The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a "social outcast" from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, I'll be all right. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much I remain outside their lives.

Toplum nedir ki? ?nsanlar?n ço?ulu mu? Bu toplum denilen ?ey somut olarak nerededir? Yine de her nas?lsa, ?iddetli, sert, korkutucu bir kavram oldu?unu dü?ünerek ya?am??t?m hep.

It's not society. You're going to do the ostracizing, aren't you?... What is society but an individual?

Ces expressions: « Être aimé », « être adoré », étaient dans mon cas absolument impropres ; « un être dont on s'occupe » eût été beaucoup plus approprié à moi.