Quotes About Alienation

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

The suicide hour of cold coffee and alien voices on the radio.

We've forgotten that we were once prey, not predator -- forgotten the intense terror, the claustrophobic horror .../ ... The ALIENATION ...

Uniquely, he understood what his days with BeeJee &ersenn had been teaching him: he, alone, was the alien.

Nothing tells you that you are not on Earth anymore than exhaling at one price and inhaling at another.

In our desire to impose form on the world and our lives we have lost the capacity to see the form that is already there; and in that lies not liberation but alienation, the cutting off of things as they really are.

The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is the agent that ensures happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.

Someone's elbow dug into my back, another woman's feet were two inches from my face. How was it possible, packed so close, to be so utterly and miserably alone?

London as cell, jail, and favor. London meant "not living in England while living in England,

The salesmen bought me perfume and invited me to lunch. But they couldn't talk to me about why families of guajiros slept in the city's parks under flashing Coca-Cola signs. Those men only murmured sweet nonsense to me, trying in vain to flatter me.

Study after study shows that emotions can make us sick. Any time we remain locked in a negative emotional pattern, we create the conditions for physical and mental illness. Chronically stuck feelings, especially those we don't deal with, damage our neuropeptides, the cells that promote communication between all parts of our body. We then become disconnected from ourselves, and that disconnection creates alienation and disease.

Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.

No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.

In the States, time with friends can feel a bit like those PETA videos of chickens on factory farms: slotted and squeezed into tight compartments.

Luna nodded at Greg, who returned the look with an embarrassed smile. Greg always seemed confused by his wife's behavior, as if she were an alien with entirely different customs from his.

What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Duele constatar que algo que ha sido tuyo, o así lo creíste, ya solo puedes abordarlo como extranjero, y que no hay mejor manera de probarle tu afecto que apartándote hacia la penumbra. Desarma pensar que poco a poco resbalas, así, hacia la penumbra de todo.

It's miserable to feel unwanted for reasons beyond your control.

The fastest way for us to help make him into a monster is to look at him like he is one.

Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.

No one looks at us. We might as well be invisible; or clothing marks us as strangers, transients. They are polite, so polite; no one stares at us.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.