Quotes About Alienation

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere, which makes me belong everywhere.

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I don't belong much anywhere.

I never felt like I belong to anything - to any groups of friends. I never really had that.

I know what it feels like to be on the outside, a place that you don't belong, feeling like you're the only one of your kind.

'Community,' that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people's lives. It's normal for us to be cut off from each other.

Of course, lots of people dehumanise others, find ways to irradiate empathy and remorse from their day jobs so they can preform their jobs better.

And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it. He bowed his head at the thought of how much strength a man would need to survive an entire life so lonely.

Your little body had once been deeper inside your mother than your father's dick had ever gone, you'd squeezed your entire goddamned head through her pussy, and then for the longest time you'd sucked on her tits whenever you felt like it, and you couldn't for the life of you remember it. You found yourself self-alienated from the get-go.

And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it.

Jonathan Franzen

Il grimpa l'escalier menant à son appartement dont il avait été si éloigné durant les deux ans et demi passés que le lieu semblait s'être retourné contre lui, ne plus vouloir être son chez-lui.

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about "Eleanor Rigby." It's true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

It was the feeling of not wanting to live in the world, even if it was the only place to live.

Everything was incredibly far away from me.

I do not love famous nightclubs. They make me feel very cheerless and abandoned. Am I applying that word correctly? Abandoned?

Here I did three fucking combat tours serving my country and I feel like a fucking fugitive.

I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces.

if you want to be really lonely, try a big city. Everyone's a stranger, and if you don't have just the right kind of contacts, they remain strangers.

A stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.