Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.
Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
Just wondering why I feel so all alone, why I'm a stranger in my own?
For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.
I speak only one language, and it is not my own.
Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me.
To declare in St John's words that Jesus and the Father are one is to claim that Jesus's dependence on the Other is not self-estrangement but self-ful lment. At the core of his identity ..lies nothing but unconditional love.
The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.
She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.
The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
I myself am hell; nobody's here
I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.
If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.
I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.
I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.
It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.
She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.
I am not my own friend.Time cuts me in two.
I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.
