Quotes About Alienation

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

It's not hard to figure out when you're not welcome.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

With 'White Light,' I had just finished watching 'Under the Skin' and was really obsessed with the idea of science fiction presented as normality.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

It's very alienating to become a target, and it can be really difficult to try and explain to people, to family members.

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard.

My four years of high school were spent locked up inside "el campo." I became a voracious reader and television-watcher, keeping to myself at such alarming extremes that I became invisible. My invisibility provided the perfect protection against harm of any sort. I walked to and from school past the gangsters as silently as a breeze, so disassociated from their tattoos and lingo that even they couldn't find a place for me in their lines of vision.

You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a fool in love and there's nothing not alien about that.

Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

If you lose contact with this inner calling, you can have some success in life, but eventually your lack of true desire catches up with you. Your work becomes mechanical. You come to live for leisure and immediate pleasures. In this way you become increasingly passive, and never move past the first phase. You may grow frustrated and depressed, never realizing that the source of it is your alienation from your own creative potential.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. Alienating