Quotes About Alienation

Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to the library, but I was made to grow up feeling 'other.' Most books, films - even advertisements - didn't reflect how I felt, and I often watched the world from the outside.

I didn't realise how much I was alienating people. I would constantly refuse to go out when friends would call. At one point, I didn't realise I was at home for a week.

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

It won't be long before the Facebook generation will be rejected by the non-Facebook people who will be rejected by the post-Facebook people. Everyone will be on their own planet.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else.

He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain.

I don't know anyone's name. If one of those women died, I couldn't even say, "Poor old Mrs. Zalinsky died." I'd have to say, "That mean old bitch across the street bit it.

I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. I would have done anything to feel real again.

I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. I would have done anything to feel real again.

You guys not closed?' she asked. 'We are the definition of not close.

I was the fifth wheel nobody wanted.

Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever since with somebody or other in order to justify the war machine. Now we have alienated almost the entire earth

I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one`s an outsider looking on, it`s all such a bore.

One always spoke of her like that in the third person as though she were not there. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace.

I don't recognize the world anymore, Marshall. Maybe when you stop feeling at home in the world, it's time to leave it.

Whatever the reason, I felt dishearteningly alone in the city.