Quotes About Alienation

If a boy became sick he walked alone; the others were afraid to catch what he had, and did not want to know him too well for he would surely die soon. We did not want his voice in our heads.

and because total non-communication in a place like the Circle was so difficult, it felt like violence.

It's a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.

To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.

Sono l'unica persona al mondo ad essere convinta che la causa del numero crescente di fatti di cronaca in cui persone all'apparenza assolutamente normali cominciano a sparare con pistole automatiche nei centri commerciali, nelle agenzie di assicurazione, nelle cliniche private e nei McDonald's dipende anche dal fatto che posti del genere sono ben noti vivai di propagazione del Sorriso Professionale?

Hal says, 'In a nutshell, what we're talking about here is loneliness.

Picture millions of average nonabnormal North Americans, all implanted with Briggs electrodes, all with electronic access to their own personal p-terminals, never leaving home, thumbing their personal stimulation levers over and over.

You just never quite occurred out there, kid.

tends to put us before the television and its one-way window

Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law.

I suddenly encountered the face of loneliness, and decided that it was a merciless and ugly face indeed.

While I was able to rise and function almost normally during the earlier part of the day, I began to sense the onset of the symptoms at midafternoon or a little later- -gloom crowding in on me, a sense of dread and alienation and, above all, stifling anxiety.

such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.

Kerry had "unusual" eyes, and she was "strange," and her mother didn't understand her, either.

I couldn't understand these town people. If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.

If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.

MinÄ™li siÄ™ jak obcy, bez gestu i sÅ'owa, ona w drodze do sklepu, on do samochodu. Mo?e w popÅ'ochu albo roztargnieniu albo niepamiÄ™taniu, ?e przez krótki czas kochali siÄ™ na zawsze. [...]

Witold Gombrowicz

Wir sind die Generation ohne Bindung und ohne Tiefe. Unsere Tiefe ist der Abgrund.

What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that's one thing about intellectuals, they've proved that you can be absolute brilliant and have no idea what's going on. But on the other hand, the body doesn't lie, as we now know. Nono, it'll be great, because all of those ph.Ds are in there, like, discussing modes of alienation, and we'll be in here quietly humping.

We are adrift alone in the cosmos wreaking monstrous violence on one another out of frustration and pain.

A world I will never feel comfortable in, never understand, and never approve of or forgive.