Quotes About Alienation

It's awkward going back up to Edinburgh to see my old friends, because I'm not on the same wavelength.

I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

High school's like another planet.

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets.

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

If a work alienates a reader, should that be counted against it? I respect people that love 'Ulysses,' for example, but I'm on the other side of the argument. 'Ulysses' would be better if it seduced me. But I probably have the minority point of view.

I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

Unless the law issues from all of the people, some of the people will feel left out. They will come to feel alienated. They will be angry. And this will not be a cohesive democracy.

I've always felt so unconnected to other comedians.

As a little boy, I never felt comfortable with being human.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

'Greatest American Hero,' I really dug that as a kid because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it, and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.

I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.