--- title: "6 Felt Separate Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 6 Felt Separate quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Felt Separate sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/stephen-fry-573_self-consciousness_none-of-this-is-important-in-itself-but_199162.jpg" --- > [“None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/none-of-this-is-important-in-itself-but-i-feel-somewhere-that-it-has/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/stephen-fry-573_self-consciousness_none-of-this-is-important-in-itself-but_199162.jpg) > [For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/for-years-i-ve-wanted-to-live-according-to-everyone-else-s-morals-i/) [Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/454/albert-camus-47_accepting_for-years-i-ve-wanted-to-live-according_1116248.jpg) > [“None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/none-of-this-is-important-in-itself-but-i-feel-somewhere-that-it-has-2/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25b/stephen-fry-573_self-consciousness_none-of-this-is-important-in-itself-but_1645592.jpg) > [In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-irving/in-our-hearts-there-must-abide-some-pity-for-those-people-who-have/) [John Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-irving/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/575/john-irving-337_certain_in-our-hearts-there-must-abide-some-pity_1882471.jpg) > [“Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dodie-smith/never-have-i-felt-so-separate-from-her-and-i-regret-to-say-that-there/) [Dodie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dodie-smith/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/dodie-smith-1724_regret_never-have-i-felt-so-separate-from-her-a_2264177.jpg) > [“As soon as I was old enough to have a feeling about it, I felt like I was alone. No matter how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-pascale/as-soon-as-i-was-old-enough-to-have-a-feeling-about-it-i-felt-like-i/) [Amy Pascale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-pascale/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b7/amy-pascale-56063_aloneness_as-soon-as-i-was-old-enough-to-have-a-fe_3139396.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/felt-separate/#itemlist", "name": "Felt Separate Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have always felt separate, why I have always felt unable to join in, to let go, to become part of the tribe, why I have always sniped or joked from the sidelines, why I have never, ever, lost my overwhelmingly self-conscious self-consciousness. It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing – they are not all bad. Those devils have also been my angels. 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