I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

“But I wasn't simply going nuts, tumbling down a shaft into Wonderland. It was my misfortune -or salvation- to be at all times perfectly…

— Kaysen

It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of…

— David Foster Wallace

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

— Mike Birbiglia

I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than…

— Katherine Webb

“Indeed, a great deal of pathological drug use is driven by unmet social needs, by being alienated and having difficulty connecting with others. The”

— Carl Hart

I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

— Paloma Elsesser

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with…

— Kangna Ranaut

“The alienated audiences was one that was aware of the performance as an arbitrary construction of the real, of the difference between players and…

— John Fiske

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated…

— Joshua Ferris

I've put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges…

— Lou Barlow

“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity becomes ‘activity…

— Peter Singer

It took me a long time to realize that being alienated and not fitting in is not only OK, it's good.

— Anonymous

I alienated myself from the academic world almost entirely because it's a left-wing world.

— Shelby Steele