Quotes About Alienation

I try to wrest myself from everything, to raise myself by uprooting myself; in order to become futile, we must sever our roots, must become metaphysically alien.

Whatever they do and wherever they go, their mission is to keep watch; this is the command of their immemorial status as aliens. A solution to their fate does not exist.

To deliver blows none of which land, to attack everyone without anyone's noticing, to shoot arrows whose poison you alone receive!

The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is.

Parking was well on the way to becoming the British population's greatest spiritual need.

Human beings today ... are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate.

Por qué estando juntos, nos encontrábamos tan lejos?

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

Hell was always for other people.

It was hard to imagine feeling more out of place than she did at that moment.

I always felt as if I were on an island. There were people around me, but they weren't really with me.

You know, I equate work here to when you come home at night and you say to your wife, 'Honey, is everything OK?' and she says, 'Yes, yes, everything is OK.' But deep down you know in your heart something isn't right. Well, that's the feeling I have here. And what's not right about working here is that I always feel like an unwanted guest.

Sometimes I wonder: Why can't they just see me, not the kid who killed? But then I wonder: Is it because the two are the same? It's bad enough to feel like an outsider. Even worse is when when I wonder: Is this new behavior, or has she been like this all along and I just never noticed? What have I been missing?

Sometimes I wonder: Why can't they just see me, not the kid who killed? But then I wonder: Is it because the two are the same? It's bad enough to feel like an outsider. Even worse is when I wonder: Is this new behavior, or has she been like this all along and I just never noticed? What have I been missing?

Sadder than destitution, sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honour of sharing or disputing each other's food.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.