logo

Quotes About Alienation

OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.
~ Thom Yorke
Alienated her completely, managed even to arouse her repugnance by overplaying how unmenacing, unfrightening an old fuddy-duddy he was. And deprived her of the spotlight.
~ Philip Roth
Siamo monadi, incapaci di messaggi reciproci, o capaci solo di messaggi monchi, falsi in partenza, fraintesi all'arrivo.
~ Primo Levi
a strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.
~ R. Scott Bakker
few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Achamian had felt more than faintly alienated by this talk, as so often happened when confronted by another's excessive enthusiasm.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.
~ Rachel Caine
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantment of later years … the alienation from the sources of our strength.
~ Rachel Carson
I was ever ill-suited for this world and could not bend my nature to it.
~ Rachel Kadish
That and loneliness.
~ Dean Koontz
Alienated from most of his relatives, Walsh left his entire estate to a questionable charity
~ Dean Koontz
No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.
~ Unknown
We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!
~ Dee Dee Ramone
I love it that I'm standing alone, it doesn't bother me, actually I prefer it, actually I don't give a shit. I am a superior being in an alien world. No, in a world of red-faced aliens. That thought tickled her, but only for a minute. Mainly she longed to feel that she wasn't invisible.
~ Delia Ephron
It was his foreignness, inability to make himself accepted, essential loserness, that made him look away.
~ Denis Johnson
someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.
~ Dennis Lehane
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It is difficult because the school I go to, my friends do not attend.
~ Mila Kunis
I no longer knew what it was like to feel Australian.
~ Phillip Noyce
I don't care much about society.
~ Varg Vikernes
President Donald Trump seems to have made me an alien.
~ Mo Farah
Oh, hogyha látnád árva lelkedet A végtelen ?rben keringeni, Amint értelmet és kifejezést Keres hiába, idegen világban, S nem érez többé semmit és nem ért, Megborzadnál.
~ Unknown
Alexander: Ingen jävel har en tanke i huvet. Oscar: Du måste vare rädd om mänskor, Alexander. Alexander: Idiotar. Nästan allihop. Oscar: Så småningom kommer du att förstå - Alexander: Jag tror inte på det där snacket. "Så småningom kommer du att förstå." Vilket förbannat så småningom? Jag ser klart. Mänskor är löjliga och jag tyckar illa om dem.
~ Ingmar Bergman
I have always felt lonely in the world out there. That is why I escaped into filmmaking even though the feeling of community is an illusion.
~ Ingmar Bergman