Quotes About Alienation

I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it.

The more I think of it, the less I understand. All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it?— I don't know.

Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.

Are "people in the world", I wonder, creatures that spend their whole lives greeting each other in stiff, formal patterns, being cautious about each other, then growing tired of each other? I hate meeting people.

And yet, in some instances… No, I don't even know that… The more I think of it, the less I understand. All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it?— I don't know.

no thought in the world is worse than the realization that, "My life is a nuisance to others. I am useless.

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest.

Even if released, I would be forever branded on the forehead with the word "madman," or perhaps, "reject". Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.

No less than myself, though in a different way, he was entirely removed from the activities of the human beings of the world. We were of one species if only in that we were both disoriented.

Society won't stand for it. It's not society. You're the one who won't stand for it--right? If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it. It's not society. It's you, isn't it? Before you know it, you'll be ostracized by society. It's not society. You're going to do the ostracizing, aren't you?

Toplum nedir ki? ?nsanlar?n ço?ulu mu? Bu toplum denilen ?ey somut olarak nerededir? Yine de her nas?lsa, ?iddetli, sert, korkutucu bir kavram oldu?unu dü?ünerek ya?am??t?m hep.

The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual.

Un hombre que se enamora cada día más profundamente de sí mismo no escucha lo que los demás le dicen. Lo siguiente de lo que se da cuenta es que yace en un subterráneo, indigno de considerarse humano.

Consuelo: Away from them, I realised that they formed a circle, or rather a net in which they were enmeshed together. I was the only one out of it. Being near them only made me feel more alone.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. Anne Morrow Lindberg

Simon and I are like young children I have seen in the park sitting beside each other in the sandbox but playing alone, not interacting. Two people living separate lives in the same space.

Even now that I'd learned i wasn't human

Quoting the Slavophile Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn ('To destroy a people, you must sever their roots'), Awlaki claimed that Muslims 'are suffering from a serious identity crisis', sharing more in common with a 'rock star or a soccer player' than 'with the companions of Rasool Allah [Mohammed]'.

Briskly aestheticizing politics, this predecessor of today's live-streaming militants outlined a likely endgame for a world in which, as Walter Benjamin wrote, the self-alienation of humankind 'has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order'.

Rousseau alienated his aristocratic patrons; he quarrelled with most of his friends and well-wishers, including Hume and Diderot, many of whom also ended up deriding him as a madman. But he disagreed most violently – and productively – with Voltaire.

What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said.

The central virtue in a shame-based expression of recovery is obedience to a power greater than ourselves. Being asked by the third step to turn our will and lives over to a Higher Power continues the disempowering process that alienates us from our own resources and our own powers of self-assertion and determination.

death is the enemy; indeed, it is the "last enemy," says 1 Corinthians 15:26. When the psalmist, then, prays for deliverance from death, he is talking about a great deal more than a physical phenomenon. Death is the "last enemy," the physical symbol of our sinful alienation from God: "For in death there is no memory of You; in the grave, who will give You thanks?" Sin