Quotes About Alienation

I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.

I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.

There was a period in high school when, for some reason, I decided that suburbanites were my enemies or my rivals in a way.

A Scanner Darkly' is one of Dick's bleakest novels, and almost certainly his saddest.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

And as I have always said, the only thing more scary than knowing we are not alone in the universe is knowing we are alone in the universe.

The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

At a moment when people are losing faith in their ability to participate in politics and make themselves heard, the media can play a critical role in reversing that sense of alienation.

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

You're working with adults and you're being paid to do a job. And you're a kid. Then you go back to high school, and everybody's partying, and they're doing math. I always felt a little bit outside of it. Outside of both experiences, really.

I've always believed there is a better place somewhere. I feel like I'm E.T. and I'm just passing through.

We are images of God. When we venerate images, we're not merely exchanging the glory of God for the glory of creation. We give up our own glory. We're alienated from our own vocation.

he could see there were many people just like him: people alone and in pain, on the outside of life looking in.

Banks felt more alone and further away for having just talked to Sophia than he had before her call. But it was always like that - the telephone might bring you together for a few moments, but there's nothing like it for emphasising distance.

He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no music except television jingles… no history except tales from a desperate mother… no friends to give him a joke or make him know himself more moderately. He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.

I'll give him the good Normal world where we're tethered beside them - blinking our nights away in a non-stop drench of cathode-ray over our shrivelling heads!

Modernity has invented the loser.

a personal relationship in an impersonal world

never humanize your victims. It shouldn't have been such an issue when dealing with methane-breathing medusae.

He may have been wrong. I may have been. But that, that distance—that chronic sense of being an alien among your own kind—it's not entirely a bad thing.