Virgil Abloh Quotes

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

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

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

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

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.

Everybody feels like an outsider at some point in their lives.

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

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.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

I didn't feel I belonged in so perfect a family.