Quotes About Alienation

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become aquatinted. It was 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. When he talked, she heard the same voice, and discerned the same mind.

Kini mereka praktis adalah orang asing, bukan, malah lebih buruk daripada orang asing, sebab mereka bahkan tidak bisa bergaul layaknya kenalan anyar. Akan selalu ada jarak di antara mereka.

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

I exchanged glances with my mother and Grandma. None of us wanted to tell my father about the contract on Grandma. "Mistaken identity," I said. "Prank," my mother said. "Damn aliens," Grandma said.

Michael hated this, it was the worst thing he could imagine, disappearing into the mass- he didn't know how to submerge himself, he was the puzzle piece that fit nowhere.

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation.

At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized.

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

When we belong to a community and learn things that are no way related to our society, we live as unwanted entities in that society.

When I was a child, growing up on a council estate in the northeast of England, I imbibed enough of the background racial tensions of the late 1970s and 1980s to feel profoundly unwelcome in Britain.

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.