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Song · Folk music · Folk rock

How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home A complete unknown Like a rolling stone?

Like a Rolling Stone · 1965

★ 7.5

Personal journal

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also-He above all-is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

Henri-Frederic Amiel

1849

★ 6.0

Nature writing · Autobiography and memoir

The world today is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, for water welling from the earth, for air, for the dear earth itself underfoot.

1928

★ 5.0

Novel · Modernist literature

When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

The Metamorphosis · 1915

★ 3.8

Political literature

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.

Reflections on the Revolution in France · 1790

★ 3.7

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

House of the Dead · 1862

★ 3.7

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace.

Rebel Without a Cause · 1955

★ 3.7

Film · Black comedy (film) · Comedy drama (film) · Black comedy · Comedy drama

Janie's a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her.

American Beauty · 1999

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.

Office Space · 1999

★ 3.7

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

The War of the Worlds · 1897

★ 3.6

Personal journal

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

1890

★ 3.5

Oh how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

1922

★ 3.5

Song · Rock music

No one knows what it's like To be the bad man To be the sad man Behind blue eyes.

Behind Blue Eyes · 1971

★ 2.9

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy (film) · Comedy drama · Comedy

Do you ever wish you that sometimes you could freeze frame a single moment in your day, look at it and say, "this is not my life?"

Mrs. Doubtfire · 1993

★ 2.0

Play · Comedy (play)

How comes it That thou art then estranged from thyself?

William Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors · 1594

★ 1.9