Quotes About Alienation

By his own choice, he had so little contact with the outside world that he frequently considered the commonplace to be bizarre: an automatic-teller machine, for instance, or some new peculiarity in the supermarket—cereal shaped like vampires, or unrefrigerated yogurt sold in pop-top cans.

Sometimes I wondered exactly what it might take to break Andy out of his math-nerd turret: a tidal wave? Decepticon invasion? Godzilla tromping down Fifth Avenue? He was a planet without an atmosphere.

En vérité, c'est si difficile d'entrer dans le monde adulte quand toutes les routes conduisent aux mêmes frontières, quand le ciel est si lointain, que les arbres n'ont plus d'yeux et que les majestueuses rivières sont recouvertes de plaques de ciment gris, que les animaux ne parlent plus et que les hommes eux-mêmes ont perdu leurs signes.»

Meanwhile" Loneliness is the mother's milk of America.

And I myself woke up one day and realized all the people in my old life hated me… but somehow I didn't care. We each became immune to the Blue Plague, which labels all resistance as racist, bigoted, Nazi scumbags.

I felt I'd used up most of my life's words in the palace, among folk who were never really mine, in a place that wasn't home.

I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.

what does it matter if I've become mute in a world where there is no one to talk to?

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

The man of today is no longer able to understand his neighbor because his profession is his whole life, and the technical specialization of this life has forced him to live in a closed universe.

The proletarian was alienated not only because he was the servant of the bourgeois but because he became a stranger to the human condition, a sort of automaton filled with economic machinery and worked by and economic switch.

The melancholy fact is that the human personality has been almost wholly disassociated and and dissolved through mechanization.

Man is caught like a fly in a bottle. His attempts at culture, freedom, and creative endeavor have become mere entries in technique's filing cabinet.

Nobody lived around here. It was one of those American neighborhoods in which upper middle-income workers were warehoused, but in which very little real, actual living was done.

Damned Weyland-Yutani piece of crap," she said.

In the desert, we are all illegal aliens.

I am so far removed, from everything, that I can't even cry. There's a chasm between me, where I am, and the world I am in. The world I move my feet through. The atmosphere I breathe is like golden syrup, twenty-seven atmospheres thick. I'm wading through the world, consumed with … consumed. And I'm wading through the swamp that my body has become.

His insistence that his government deal only with the Right had made it a hostage to nationalist interest groups and alienated the rest of the country. His embracing and encouragement of a public rhetoric which bristled with violence, racial stereotyping and threats had helped to bolster an image abroad of a nation hungering for conflict.

The air had a stinging weight like ocean waves. I felt myself a stranger to the world.

Disposable cubicles for dispensable people.

The alienated audiences was one that was aware of the performance as an arbitrary construction of the real, of the difference between players and characters, and was therefore aware that the people and incidents on stage were there to perform social an ideological actions that could only be understood in terms of their relationship to the dominant ideology. Alienation produced a thinking, interrogative socially aware audience.

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.

Besides, in such wells of loneliness is not any coming together closer to humanity than perversity?

Ayn? dile, ayn? geçmiÅŸe ve daha pek çok ayn? ÅŸeye sahip olup da, onlara, Ä°ngilizlere ait olmamaktan kaynaklanan bir öfke ve ÅŸaÅŸk?nl?k kar???m? his. Kökleri olmamaktan beter bir durumdu bu... bir türe ait olamamak.