Depersonalization Quotes:

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 ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning

- Bret Easton Ellis

topic: Reality, Compassion, Hair, Depersonalization

In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.

- Sheila Kitzinger

source: Sheila Kitzinger (1978). “Women as mothers”

topic: Pain, Parenting, May, Transcending, Childbirth

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

- Charles Eisenstein

topic: Running, Anxiety, Machines, Depersonalization

Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world

- Amby Burfoot

source: Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.24, Rodale

topic: Fragmentation, Depersonalization, Digital World

This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted

- Susanna Kaysen

topic: Girl, Stress, Numbness, Depersonalization, Girl Interrupted

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 do speak.

- Ihab Hassan

source: Ihab Habib Hassan (1980). “The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

topic: Writing, Speak, Plagiarism, Depersonalization