Source: Room
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You
“You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.”
Source: Letter to a Child Never Born
“They got you wrong,
You're not that strong.
I don't belong here!”
"Anyway"
Lyrics, Alicia Witt (2009)
Context: My so-called faith went up in flames
Till I believed in all your lies,
For the life of me I don't know why.
They got you wrong,
You're not that strong.
I don't belong here!
“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”
Source: The Gay Science
translation from the Dutch original: Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch / citaat van Paul Gabriël, in Nederlands: Wees wat, weest U zelve, zoo niet gooi uw palet in ’t vuur. Vormt een school zoo ge wilt, maar het moet uit U komen, maar gij zelve mag tot geen school behooren.
In a letter of Gabriël, Brussel (14 Oct. 1879), to his student then Willem Bastiaan Tholen; in Gabriël, P.J.C, ed. Jeltes, H.F.W.; Gebroeders Binger, Amsterdam 1926; as cited in an excerpt of RKD Archive, The Hague https://rkd.nl/explore/excerpts/136
1860's + 1870's
“Forgiveness to the injured does belong;
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.”
Part 2, Act I, scene ii.
The Conquest of Granada (1669-1670)
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
