Quotes About Alienation

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

Tonight I had a massive think, I've realised I seriously don't fit in with my friendship group. As sad as it is, I just really really don't.

The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation.

It`s like I don,t matter to anybody. I just hate being left out of everything after all I do for them.

It's amazing that no matter how included I am, I always feel like I'm being left out.

Gosh how I love being left out of things its super cool, especially when I've had a day like I have. Go away.

I just love being left out of everything and now I don't even get invited to do sh.. with my friends.

There was only one solution to this alienation that was created not by the Negro or the bastard, but by the real bastards, the racists and colonizers who blamed the victim for the conditions that the victimizer created. And that solution was "to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me, to reject the two terms that are equally unacceptable, and, through one human being, to reach out for the universal.

The American Way of Life! Eat too much, work too much, buy too much, read too little, think even less, and die in poverty and insecurity.

consumed by the metastasizing cancer called assimilation and susceptible to the hypochondria of exile.

Even if you are in paradise, it is still hell if you are all alone.

Loneliness is worse but the worst kind of loneliness is when you are in a crowd of people.

We were at one time also "alienated from God and were enemies in [our] minds" (Colossians 1:21), but God has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ (v. 22). In contrast, non-Christians are "separate from Christ…without hope and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12).

Sin alienates a person from God, and drives the person to live in a way that displeases him. This person will spend less time praying, reading the Bible and Christian books, ministering to others, and seeking God (v. 13-16). Sins leads a person into spiritual poverty:

What I am in the eyes of most people — a nonetity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and never will have, in short, the lowest of the low.

Doing what we should never be done: asking for money for what must remain free. The decision does not belong to each adult woman, but is imposed by collective laws. Prostitutes are the only workers whose alienation moves the upper class -- to the extent that women who have never lacked for anything are absolutely, smugly convinced that prostitution should not be legalized.

I am here a stranger to all feasts but those of blood.

Engels elucidates the concept of the "power" which is called the state, a power which arose from society but places itself above it and alienates itself more and more from it. What does this power mainly consist of? It consists of special bodies of armed men having prisons, etc., at their command.

Os escravos assalariados de hoje, em conseqüência da exploração capitalista, vivem por tal forma acabrunhados pelas necessidades e pela miséria, que nem tempo têm pa-ra se ocupar de "democracia" ou de "política"; no curso normal e pacífico das coisas a maioria da população se encontra afastada da vida política e social.

There was something wrong with this man. He didn't call me Toby. He didn't even talk to us. I thought of my first mother, the very last time I saw her, escaping the Yard because she couldn't live with humans, not even with someone as loving as Senora. But the man didn't love us at all.

Todo el mundo piensa que no encaja del todo. Es parte de la maldición de ser humano.

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.