Quotes About Alienation

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

Paris had for years been a center for those alienated from and opposed to the Church, as well as being opposed to organized religion in general.

It had come to him that no one would ever look from these eyes but he: that among all the lives, numerous beyond imagination, in which he might have lived, he was this one, pinned to this single point of infinity; the rest always to be alien, he to be I.

He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.

The most serious cause of illness that we may face as we proceed to the twenty-first century is increasing human isolation.

If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. That's why everyone hates each other nowadays, he reckoned. Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.

I was convinced I wasn't made for the reality of the world. And in a way, I was right. I wasn't made for the world. I was, like everyone, made by the world. I was made by parents and culture and TV and books and politics and school and maybe even shopping centres. So, I either needed a new me. Or a new planet. And I didn't yet know how to find either. Which is why I felt suicidal.

That is the biggest paradox, I think, about the modern world. We are all connected to each other but we often feel shut out. The increasing overload and complexity of modern life can be isolating.

So, I either needed a new me. Or a new planet. And I didn't yet know how to find either. Which is why I felt suicidal.

No, thou art come too late, Empedocles! And the world hath the day, and must break thee, Not thou the world. With men thou canst not live, Their thoughts, their ways, their wishes, are not thine; And being lonely thou art miserable, For something has impair'd they spirit's strength, And dried its self-sufficing font of joy.

The danger was that the alienation from and antagonism toward American culture and society expressed by many on the right could turn into a general opposition to the constitutional order.

I feel myself dead – no; I feel myself, living, infinitely more dead than dead.

Does not love consist precisely in the establishment of the mirror relation?...It would then be necessary to say that love is not an illusoon, but...actual alienation. The error lies in believing that it is only an error...The mystery: how one can be non-self with all of one's strength.

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

The self, entirely encompassed by civilization, is dissolved in an element composed of the very inhumanity which civilization has sought from the first to escape.

Svijet mi je odjednom postao tajna, i ja svijetu, stalni smo jedan prema drugome, za?u?eno se gledamo, ne raspoznajemo se, ne razumijemo se više.

Nikog ne poznajem, i nemam nikakvih obaveza osim da ostanem neprimije?en. Osje?am se izdvojen, stran, ništa nije moje, i mogu da budem nadmo?an, i surov. Udaljujem ih od sebe, potirem crte lica, gušim glasove do neprepoznavanja, prekidam svaku ljudsku vezu izme?u sebe i njih, posmatram ih obesmišljene, puštam da žive preda mnom bez moje pomo?i, sami sobom, bez mog razumijevanja i podrške, bez mog opravdanja i kritike, bez moga u?eš?a.

Al año siguiente, cuando ya no nos hablábamos, pensé que su nueva personalidad realmente tenía sentido, que besar a chicos y fumar marihuana y salir de clase dando fuertes pisotones e insultar a los profesores y básicamente comportarse unas cien veces peor y más escandalosamente de lo que eres en realidad, es lo que hay que hacer para no pensar que tienes que volver a dormir en una casa triste y gris.

The train came, and Jules Jacobson stepped on and thought: I am the loneliest person in this subway car.

When you realize, you have no idea what's going on in your kid's head? One morning, you wake up and there's this alien in your house. They look like your kid, sound a little like them, but they are not your kid. They're something else that you don't know.

If there was a family in the world to which I did not belong, it was my own.

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if you don't laugh you're going to cry and never stop crying - that's probably what's responsible for the Jews having developed such a great sense of humor. The people who had the greatest reason to weep, learned more than anyone else how to laugh.

Sluts and losers are tolerable to my friends. But a person with a social conscience is from Pluto.