36 Best alienation Quotes

You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. – Travis Bickle

All my life needed was a sense of some kind of direction, a sense of some kind of purpose. – Travis Bickle

You're a young woman, you're beautiful, you're... you're like an angel. You're like a goddess. – Travis Bickle to Betsy

You get a job, you become the job. – Wizard

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. – The Narrator

The world itself's just one big hoax. Spamming each other with our running commentary of bullshit, masquerading as insight, our social media faking as intimacy. – Elliot

I've spent my whole life hating humans. I won't last a minute in your world. – San

I am I, and I wish I wasn't. – Bernard Marx

It seemed to him that he had cut himself off from everyone and everything at that moment. – Narrator

If you really want to know the truth, it's this: I don't even know what I was running for – I guess I just felt like it. – Holden Caulfield

That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. – Holden Caulfield

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. – Holden Caulfield

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. – Holden Caulfield

People never notice anything. – Holden Caulfield

I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it. – Holden Caulfield

It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. – Holden Caulfield

I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it. – Holden Caulfield

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

I had no place in a world where everyone was so sure of themselves.

The prosecutor then turned to me and pointed at me with a finger of scorn, and I really couldn't understand why he was making such a fuss.

I was listening to him and I could hear that I was being judged intelligent. But I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

You're not important. You're not anything.

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?

Random thoughts for Valentine's Day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap. – Joel

What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger. – Joel

I'm a 17th-century man! I don't belong in a 20th-century world! – Thackery Binx

People fake a lot of human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all, and I fake them very well. – Dexter Morgan

All of it. All the time. It's a performance. – Dexter Morgan

I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. – Patrick Bateman

I have to return some videotapes. – Patrick Bateman

I'm just not there. – Patrick Bateman

I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If they like their jobs. Or us. And I wonder how smart they are. – Charlie

It's a funny thing... the more I hate the world, the more the world seems to hate me. – Major Payne

You ever get the feelin'...? – Ennis Del Mar

My father believed that if the world found out who I really was, they'd reject me… out of fear. – Superman