Adam Curtis Quotes

I'd never been content in America.

I was standing onstage last year, and I felt like I wanted to be somewhere else. No matter how many people were out there, it all just felt like a blank sheet of paper.

Disaffection stalks around us.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.

Tell me where do I belong in a sick society?

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'

People are hurting, and they feel very disengaged and disenfranchised.

Everyone says I should leave it. But of all the cats I have saved, the one I remember is the one I can't catch.

Despair - or as I like to call it, des-pair - means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope - and you're not.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

I'm never content, and I don't know if that's a curse or a good thing.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

Though we are more prosperous a nation and more connected a global community than ever before, many of us still feel lonely, disoriented and uncertain of the future.

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.

There are no more vices left - I don't drink or smoke and at a party, after a while, I am lost. I don't dance to the beat of that drum anymore.

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.

I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world.

If you desire, you are restless.

From the time I was little, I always felt like an outsider. I always felt nervous and uncomfortable with myself.

Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.

I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.