Quotes About Alienation

But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

It seemed as though he would never pull free, until he awoke one morning feeling kind of awkward, as though his hands had been lopped off by some Arabian sword during a routine druggie blackout, and in their place, pale and membranous hands that had been fit to his wrists by aliens that took him up while he slept and then brought him back down – all of it in an effort to help him move up to where he belonged in society.

It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.

He acts like he doesn't even notice that I should be locked away forever and ever in some bad, drafty place that serves only American cheese.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation, but the passivity with which the citizenry accepted that condition. It may well become known as the century of sophisticated deference.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

Whatever we most admire and look up to—God, the truths of mathematics, the laws of nature—is endowed with an existence that transcends time. We act inside time but judge our actions by timeless standards. As a result of this paradox, we live in a state of alienation from what we most value. This alienation affects every one of our aspirations.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

why was I born with a different face, Why was I not born like the rest of my race? When I look each one starts! when I speak I offend Then I'm silent and passive and lose every friend.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected

Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

There could have been no two hearts So open, no tastes so similar, no feelings So in unison, no countenances So beloved. Now they were strangers; Nay, worse than strangers, for they Could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the drawing-room at Uppercross, they would have found it most difficult to cease to speak to one another. [...] Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

They have both," said she, "been deceived, I dare say, in some way or other, of which we can form no idea. Interested people have perhaps misrepresented each to the other. It is, in short, impossible for us to conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alienated them, without actual blame on either side.