#belong

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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.


Lois Lowry


#alone #belonging #jonah #life #lois-lowry

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.


Eric Hoffer


#anomie #belonging #the-true-believer #life

J'ai envie de partir, de m'en aller quelque part où je serais vraiment à ma place, où je m'emboîterais... Mais ma place n'est nulle part; je suis de trop.


Jean-Paul Sartre


#existentialism #men

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.


Kazuo Ishiguro


#chaos #civilization #destruction #fear #insecurity

The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things are precisely what language does not speak about. Language is a natural act which implies belonging. He who exists, speaks. He who does not speak, does not exist. He has no place in the world. The Huichol language is Huichol to the same degree as the Huichol earth, the Huichol sky, religion, tattooing, dress, the peyoteros' hat. It is not enough to pronounce the syllables of the Huichol language to be Huichol. That is obvious.


J.M.G. Le Clézio


#belonging #culture #language #other #nature

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.


Aristotle


#allow #base #belongs #both #does

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.


W. H. Auden


#anthropology #belongs #history #questions #sociology

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.


Gaston Bachelard


#belong #body #does #inn #morning

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.


Pearl Bailey


#belong #cannot #else #until #you