Non-Belonging Quotes

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.

Thank god, I'm not from this world.

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

I always viewed myself as kind of hip-hop's outcast, or hip-hop's stepson.

America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.

I want every character be an outsider in some way.

I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.

I've always felt like an outsider, whether in school or when I'm working or within the industry or just in society at large.

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.