A Quotes Talking About Not Fitting In
'I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.' — Thomas Edison 14. 'The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the. It’s tough to deal with feeling like you don’t really fit in. There are no easy answers but maybe there’s something in the following that may be helpful. 'Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.' Baruch + 'I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.' Love is not about asking someone to change, to bend, to become something they’re not. Love is not about trying to force pieces of a puzzle together. Love is about falling into something, someone where all the pieces just fit. See, I think that’s what we forget about love.
1. “For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.” (Page 2)
This quote relates to the theme of pain and pleasure because the community members made a terrible decision of releasing the pilot, not knowing that releasing is killing him. The community members have no idea of the pain of being released. All they know is that releasing is a bad term to use.
2. “How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made.” (Page 48)
This quote relates to the theme of the importance of individual because the community makes perfect choices for each person looking at their interest and abilities. Everyone in the community has an important role to play in order for the community to work. Each member has an important assignment (job) to do in order for each others survival.
3. “You will be faced now with the pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage.” (Page 63)
This quote connects to the theme of pain and pleasure because the community members have never felt the pain because it’s beyond their experiences. If they haven’t felt the pain, then they haven’t even felt the pleasure because there is no pleasure without pain. So, they can’t describe or comprehend the pain and pleasure. The person only person that can comprehend pain and pleasure is The Giver.
4. “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished the sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.” (Page 95)
This quote relates to the theme of memory because the community chooses to relinquish memories, to get rid of the pain. To get rid of painful memories they had to give away many good memories. Like the memory of love, relationships and much more.
5. “Things could change, Gabe. Things could be different. I don’t know, how but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents. And everybody would have memories. You know about memories.” (Page 128)
This quote relates to the theme of memory because Jonas tells Gabe about colors and grandparents, which is part of lost memories. Jonas wants the memories back and not sure why the community would make a stupid decision of giving the memories up.
6. “He felt such love for Asher and for Fiona. But they could not feel it back, without the memories. And he could not give them those.” (Page 135)
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This quote relates to the theme of memory because Jonas feels such love for Asher and Fiona, but they don’t feel it back because they don’t have the memories. Jonas feels so bad that they can’t feel the same as him and wishes to share those memories with him, but sadly can’t. This proves that memories are really important for life and to interact with people.
7. “Memories are forever.” (Page 144)
This quote relates to the theme of memory because they are talking about memories and that they last forever. Although the community members don’t have the memories, they are still there. The Giver has all their pleasurable and painful memories existing in his life. The painful memories are as important as the pleasurable memories in life.
8. “Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of a terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.” (Page 151)
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This quote relates to the theme of memory because crying is an awful feeling that Jonas is feeling by taking in a painful memory. Jonas understands that memories can be happy as well as painful and no matter what happens he needs to take the memories in, as a Receiver.
9. “It’s the way they live. It’s the life that was created for them. It’s the same life that you would have if you had not been chosen as my successor.” (Page 153)
This quote relates to the theme of memory because The Giver was explaining Jonas that the members in the community didn’t choose this life without memories. This life was created for them. The Giver tells Jonas that he have the same life without memories if he wasn’t chosen to be The Receiver.
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10. “For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.” (Page 180)
This quote relates to the theme of memory because music is a memory that Jonas took in. Now that, he is not in the community anymore, he heard “real” music. The music in the real world and thought that he heard music from the place he left but, it was an echo.