Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I've always felt like I'm from another planet.

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

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

This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

Pero yo ya no soy yo Ni mi casa es ya mi casa. But now I am no longer I, nor is my house any longer my house.

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

Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.

Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.

Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?

I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

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

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

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.

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

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'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 felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

I didn't know what country I represented anymore.

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

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

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.