Quotes About Self-alienation

Ever since he'd discovered a secret passageway out of self-alienation, in the form of giving himself pleasure while also receiving it, he'd increasingly resented any activity that took him away from it.

Humanity's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

He looked old, like a stranger. He was someone else, someone whom he could easily hate. (Tom Pitts, Piggyback)

Alienar-se de suas inclinações só pode resultar em dor e decepção no longo prazo, e à sensação de que desperdiçou algo único. Essa dor se manifestará sob a forma de amargura e inveja, embora você não reconheça a verdadeira fonte de sua depressão.

In what is described as depression and experienced as emptiness, futility, fear of impoverishment, and loneliness can usually be recognized as the tragic loss of the self in childhood, manifested as the total alienation from the self in the adult.

Compulsive substance addiction can have disastrous effects because it blocks off the path to genuine emotions and feelings. The drug can supply feelings of euphoria that reanimate the creativity scotched by a cruel upbringing. But the body will not tolerate this self-alienation for the duration of an entire life.

since I was truly a disinherited son, I naturally enough became unsure about what was nearest to me – my own body.

The way woman is defined by marketable modeling and commercial standards... It makes me feel alien to myself.

Once I had a "self"; now I am no more than an object.

Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being.

Perhaps faith is a faith in one's self, the belief that one wouldn't feel so moved by the encounter if it weren't divine, a trust in one's own deepest positive responses. To doubt it would involve a self-alienation.

In the first case the object works like a magnet upon the tendencies of the subject; it determines the subject to a large extent and even alienates him from himself.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

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Mankind, which in Homer's time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, is now one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as aesthetic pleasure of the first order.

You'll need to drop the model of self-alienation that you learned as a child—the one that tells you, "You are lazy and need someone to force you to work.

Briskly aestheticizing politics, this predecessor of today's live-streaming militants outlined a likely endgame for a world in which, as Walter Benjamin wrote, the self-alienation of humankind 'has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order'.