--- title: "10 Not belonging Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Not belonging quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Not belonging sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/887/barbara-kingsolver-200_belonging_something-in-me-was-always-watching-life_2500621.jpg" --- > [ Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging \[to a group\].… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/something-in-me-was-always-watching-life-from-the-outside-permanently/) [Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/887/barbara-kingsolver-200_belonging_something-in-me-was-always-watching-life_2500621.jpg) > [The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sa-larsson/the-feeling-of-being-an-underdog-not-belonging-is-very-much-me-you/) [Asa Larsson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sa-larsson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a7/sa-larsson-23951_being_the-feeling-of-being-an-underdog-not-bel_360888.jpg) > [“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/the-same-feeling-of-not-belonging-of-futility-wherever-i-go-i-pretend/) [Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b79/emil-m-cioran-2951_futility_the-same-feeling-of-not-belonging-of-fut_1908120.jpg) > [Sometimes I feel kind of wrong here. I used to be normal, but now... I don't know. I feel like I should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-shepard/sometimes-i-feel-kind-of-wrong-here-i-used-to-be-normal-but-now-i-don/) [Sara Shepard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-shepard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8a/sara-shepard-1948_feels_sometimes-i-feel-kind-of-wrong-here-i-us_2672016.jpg) > [“When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erik-pevernagie/when-the-sense-of-not-belonging-is-tolling-the-bell-for-true/) [Erik Pevernagie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erik-pevernagie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c76/erik-pevernagie-688_accepting-life_when-the-sense-of-not-belonging-is-tolli_183566.jpg) > [All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/konrad-lorenz/all-too-willingly-man-sees-himself-as-the-centre-of-the-universe-as/) [Konrad Lorenz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/konrad-lorenz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/konrad-lorenz-8538_belonging_all-too-willingly-man-sees-himself-as-th_470230.jpg) > [Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orhan-pamuk/of-course-in-turkey-i-m-seen-as-being-on-the-western-side-criticised/) [Orhan Pamuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orhan-pamuk/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0e/orhan-pamuk-500_belonging_of-course-in-turkey-i-m-seen-as-being-on_1016139.jpg) > [I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuriy-tarnawsky/i-ve-done-a-lot-of-going-back-and-forth-with-my-own-writing-in/) [Yuriy Tarnawsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuriy-tarnawsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/yuriy-tarnawsky-34429_ambiguous_i-ve-done-a-lot-of-going-back-and-forth_2786411.jpg) > [“They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am wandering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-levithan/they-are-so-caught-up-in-their-happiness-that-they-don-t-realize-i-m/) [David Levithan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-levithan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/david-levithan-67_disconnection_they-are-so-caught-up-in-their-happiness_2895870.jpg) > [Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/pathology-has-made-us-acquainted-with-a-great-number-of-states-in/) [Sigmund Freud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sigmund-freud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e7/sigmund-freud-360_aliens_pathology-has-made-us-acquainted-with-a_1224877.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/not-belonging/#itemlist", "name": "Not belonging Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. 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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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yuriy Tarnawsky" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuriy-tarnawsky/i-ve-done-a-lot-of-going-back-and-forth-with-my-own-writing-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/yuriy-tarnawsky-34429_ambiguous_i-ve-done-a-lot-of-going-back-and-forth_2786411.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/yuriy-tarnawsky-34429_ambiguous_i-ve-done-a-lot-of-going-back-and-forth_2786411.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/yuriy-tarnawsky-34429_ambiguous_i-ve-done-a-lot-of-going-back-and-forth_2786411.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language…” — Yuriy Tarnawsky", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am wandering along the periphery. I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. . . . There are moments I just sit in my frame, float in my tank, ride in my car and say nothing, think nothing that connects me to anything at all.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "David Levithan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-levithan/they-are-so-caught-up-in-their-happiness-that-they-don-t-realize-i-m/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/david-levithan-67_disconnection_they-are-so-caught-up-in-their-happiness_2895870.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/david-levithan-67_disconnection_they-are-so-caught-up-in-their-happiness_2895870.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/809/david-levithan-67_disconnection_they-are-so-caught-up-in-their-happiness_2895870.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. 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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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sigmund Freud" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sigmund-freud/pathology-has-made-us-acquainted-with-a-great-number-of-states-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e7/sigmund-freud-360_aliens_pathology-has-made-us-acquainted-with-a_1224877.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e7/sigmund-freud-360_aliens_pathology-has-made-us-acquainted-with-a_1224877.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e7/sigmund-freud-360_aliens_pathology-has-made-us-acquainted-with-a_1224877.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego…” — Sigmund Freud", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/not-belonging/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/not-belonging/", "name": "Not belonging Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/not-belonging/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/887/barbara-kingsolver-200_belonging_something-in-me-was-always-watching-life_2500621.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 10 Not belonging quotes by 10 authors. 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