Quotes About Alienation

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications.

He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup. (about his brother Liam)

I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here.

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

Derealization—A feeling that one's surroundings are strange or unreal. Often involves previously familiar people.

Depersonalization—Detachment from one's self, e.g., a sense of looking at one's self as if one is an outsider.

You could have a family of one and still drive them apart.

Anger is a result of life alienated thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyse and judge somebody rather than focus on which of our needs is not being met.

All I wanted to do was watch media and not exist. I said, You know I don't like fun.

I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break.

I am tired of the whole concept of humans right now.

I can't do even the half-assed version of this stupid job if I have to talk to humans.

The new hipsters had cast aside the syndrome of alienation and despair that saddled many of their beatnik forebears.

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

I hope somebody cares because I sure don't. I sure don't. Not anymore. I'm ashamed to go around my family. I'm too embarrassed to confide in my friends. Outside of work I don't have a life.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Pushing away doesn't cause things to come together, all it causes is for things to be pushed away.

Through suicide, Man will completely triumph over Death, over everything that alienates him from himself and that once used Death as pretence, because nothing was more sublime and wrong in the history of the social evolution of the human being than Death, which was and still is now, subconsciously the Self Absolute of the Man! And yet, we must live!

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.