Quotes About Alienation

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People talk to her, but it feels like they are outside a house, talking through the walls.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People talk to her, but it feels like they are outside a house, talking through the walls. There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with.

Seria fácil demais dizer que me sinto invisível. Em vez disso, me sinto dolorosamente visível e totalmente ignorado. As pessoas falam com ela, mas é como se estivessem do lado de fora de uma casa, falando através das paredes. Ela tem amigos, mas são pessoas com quem passa o tempo, não com quem o divide.

Accepted nowhere, belonging nowhere, The Human Ant is forced to roam the world, half-ant, half-cow.

These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.

And underneath it all, there remained an ever present anger and hurt, the feeling of belonging nowhere that comes to people who belong everywhere.

And underneath it all, there remained an ever-present anger and hurt, the feeling of belonging nowhere that comes to people who belong everywhere. It

The way he understood the world was so genuinely alien to me that it felt as if he occupied a parallel reality, which I didn't doubt was the real one, but which I couldn't 'speak to,' to use a favorite phrase of his.

Everybody knows that if people hang around for any length of time in an urban area without purpose they are likely to become "antisocial.

O dor picioarele È™i trebuie s? se aÈ™eze, dar cafenelele ticsite o sperie, tot ce era pl?cut ziua a devenit amenin??tor noaptea, È™i ea coteÈ™te de pe strada principal? pe o strad? l?turalnic? È™i intr? într-una dintre curÈ›i, trebuie s? g?seasc? un ad?post, ea nu aparÈ›ine acestui loc, e înc?rcat? de jalea trecutului È™i de spaima de viitor, exact ca oraÈ™ul ei de baÈ™tin?.

We cry 'cause we slave. In night time we cry, we say we born and raised to be free people and now we slave. We doan know why we be bring 'way from our country to work lak dis. It strange to us. Everybody lookee at us strange. We want to talk wid de udder colored folkses but dey doan know whut we say. Some makee de fun at us.

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

I'm amongst you all, but I'm not one of you all.

Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

I've done arenas, and sometimes it feels like you're the only one in the room.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

I used to want to know everything, to be learned; and one thing I did learn thoroughly — I knew that I was not wanted here on earth.

The result of this is a disrespect for the world in general and a foreignness to anything around him that isn't immediately recognizable to his everyday habits. He has even begun to lose perspective on what his own assets and faults are, because he has nothing to measure these things against.

I do believe that it takes a strong dose of alienation to make a good artist or writer in the modern world. You can't be too well-adjusted and still have anything interesting to say.

Today, at the close of Thurman's century, those people who live most obviously with their backs against the wall—for instance, the homeless, the working and jobless poor, the substance abused and abusers, the alienated, misguided, and essentially abandoned young people—are rarely within hearing or seeing range of the company of Jesus' proclaimed followers.