William Blake Quotes

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me: I became rancorous. I was gloomy--other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them--but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world--none understood me: and I learned to hate.

Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

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.

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.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

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

People don't like me.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

Look, I know what it feels like to believe you're 'different' in a bad way.

I still feel like no one knows who I am. I still feel anonymous.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

I don't ever feel like anybody knows who I am.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

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

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.

When my friends started to care about getting girlfriends, I really didn't. I started to think, literally, 'What's wrong with me?' and, 'Why can't I be normal like everybody else?'