Nick Flynn Quotes

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

all day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head

I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of intense loneliness in life, and a contempt, not for other men, but for all they do.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

Everywhere I go, I feel strange.

America is a huge country, filled with great tracts of open land. If you're not careful, you can get lost in it - lost emotionally, mentally, spiritually.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I've often felt I don't belong quite wherever I am.

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.

In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

I am realising this now more as I grow up: that I never really felt connected to locations. In some sense, I always kind of felt a little lost in that I never had any hometown pride. While I experience a lot different places and experiences, I always felt a little detached.

We moved around a lot when I was younger. I never really felt at home until we moved to Canada, but even then, I always felt strangely out of place and alien.

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.