Quotes About Alienation

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

Klaus will not look at Ona or acknowledge anything she says. Ona is a ghost to him or less because of her 'Narfa', her spinsterdom and her burgeoning belly. I have observed that being a ghost suits Ona.

If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

Each time we talk, he listens to me ramble, then he tries to pass on some sort of life lesson. He warns me that money is not the most important thing, contrary to the popular view on campus. He tells me I need to be fully human. He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for connectedness with the society around me.

He tells me I need to be "fully human." He speaks of the alienation of youth and the need for "connectedness" with the society around me.

and the more he looked the less white he seemed, as though looking for his whiteness was the opposite of whiteness, was driving it further away, making him seem desperate

You're a watchful guy. You know where that comes from? I shook my head. It comes from feeling out of place, he said. Believe me. I know

In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid.

Like so much of cool hunting, Hilfiger's marketing journey feeds off the alienation at the heart of America's race relations: selling white youth on their fetishization of black style, and black youth on their fetishization of white wealth.

Too often, however, the expansive nature of the branding process ends up causing the event to be usurped, creating the quintessential lose-lose situation. Not only do fans begin to feel a sense of alienation from (if not outright resentment toward) once-cherished cultural events, but the sponsors lose what they need most: a feeling of authenticity with which to associate their brands.

We are looking to [corporate] brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

My head ached worst of all, some part of me tethered back to the valley, stretched out of recognizable shape and trying to make sense of myself when I was so far from anything I knew.

Their goal is to subvert Western cultural norms and ultimately to alienate Western children from their families' influence and from Western history and freedoms generally.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Life on the streets is short. People look at you in disgust, even the ones who give you alms, but this is nothing compared to the revulsion you feel for yourself. It's like being trapped in a walking corpse, a corpse that's hungry, stinks, and refuses to die.

era un hombre solitario que quemaba sus puentes con el mundo sin darse cuenta, o quizá lo hacía de forma deliberada porque pensaba que casi nada bueno podía cruzarlos.

A deterioration has occurred to the fabric of the world, the world that does not belong to her as she has been told. Again and again and again. She is prohibited from entering. From now on life will seem less and less like life.

She was afraid because in the war they would not include her, and because the world seemed somehow separate from herself.

Todos los días eran iguales para ellos, porque estaban tan solos que nada les estorbaba

I recognise the place, I feel at home here, but I don't belong. I am of, and not of, this place.

she'd learned that the more people there were, the lonelier she felt.

My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years.

The constant cry is that you belong here, or you make yourself belong, or you must go. (1998: 319)