Quotes About Alienation

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

See the moon? It hates us.

When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

I see humans but no humanity.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

Amidst a crowd of strangers, I still remain unknownto myself.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

She wrote that she, too, always felt an outsider "...even to myself.

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.

No longer an American, Benedict Arnold was never accepted as an Englishman, either.

Wat zou er trouwens veranderen als er op andere planeten ook mensen woonden? Ik heb nooit gehoord dat de Europeanen zich minder eenzaam voelden, toen Columbus ontdekte dat Amerika bestond er dat er daar ook mensen waren.