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  • Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should be one way, but I'm not." Toby stared at her. "I hear that." He sighed. "There are all these perfect people here. And... it's like, if you're not one of the,. then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just as messed up as we are.

    Sara Shepard (2010). “Flawless: Number 2 in series”, p.70, Hachette UK
  • The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

    "‘Childhood Is Not a Geographical Place’: Arwad ‘s Samer Najari and Dominique Chila" by E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2014.
  • All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.

    Men   Errors   People  
    Konrad Lorenz (2005). “On Aggression”, p.99, Routledge
  • Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.

    Numbers   Ego   Feelings  
    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”
  • I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry as well as prose. But I actually hate doing it. It is a thankless, mind-numbing process, additionally unpleasant for me because it reminds me of my ambiguous status of not belonging anywhere.

    Hate   Writing   Mind  
    "No Tall Tales: An Interview With Yuriy Tarnawsky". Interview With David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
  • Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.

    Interview with Crystal Wilkinson, appalachianheritage.net. November 20, 2014.
  • Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

    Hurt   Shoes   Awkward  
    Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Romeo and Juliet Code”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.
  • The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

    Dog   Feelings   Littles  
  • I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.

    Burning   Body   Longing  
    Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (At The Deportation Centre)”
  • Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even, sometimes, criticised for looking at my country through Western eyes. And in the Western media I'm portrayed as belonging to the East.

    Country   Eye   Media  
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