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#belonging

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #belonging




You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it.


John Lanchester


#life #material-possessions #stuff #life

Bez te tačke, za koju si vezan, ne bi volio ni drugi svijet, ne bi imao kud da odeš, jer ne bi bio nigdje.


Meša Selimović


#home #travel #death

And as if he had read her thoughts, the old man murmured, 'What a blessing it is to die in your own bed, under your own roof, with your family surrounding you, full of the knowledge that you have lived as thoroughly as you wanted to.


Anita Rau Badami


#dying #family

There’s a penis in my penne pasta. It’s my penis, but that doesn’t mean it belongs there.



Jarod Kintz


#belonging #belongs #food #pasta #penis

I belong, and my penis, it be long.



Jarod Kintz


#funny #humor #penis #silly #funny

I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No.


Jeanette Winterson


#displaced #hero #longing #life

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way.


T.C. Boyle


#cohabitation #commitment #marriage #maturity #reliability

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.


Samuel Alexander


#expectation #future #me #object #recognised

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too.


Sandra Neil Wallace


#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature






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