Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon is that…

— T.S. Eliot

“I had all the characteristics of a human being-- flesh, blood, skin, hair-- but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, falling in love, war, the discoveries people made about…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a pair of…

— Carl Sutton

“Dissociative symptoms—primarily depersonalization and derealization—are elements in other DSM-IV disorders, including schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, and in the neurologic syndrome of temporal lobe…

— James A. Chu

“There wasn't a clear, identifiable emotion within me, except for greed and possibly, total disgust. I had all the characteristics of a human being…

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety…

— Charles Linden

“... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from self-transcending devotion…

— Arthur Koestler

“This was the geography around which my reality revolved: it did not occur to me, ever, that people were good or that a man…

— Bret Easton Ellis

In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it…

— Sheila Kitzinger

For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and…

— Charles Eisenstein

“ You’re in shock. You can’t afford to be in shock. Two parts of himself were having a conversation. You were probably meant to…

— Jack Grimwood

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more…

— Laeta Kalogridis

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we…

— Ihab Hassan