Quotes About Alienation

Maybe you were telling the truth, maybe it was you who brought me to Earth. But I didn't ask to come, and I don't owe you for the favor!

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

For people like us, home doesn't exist.

Hers was a beauty that alienated-she was not cold exactly, but she did not offer warmth or ease-she possessed a kind of eerie solitude.

We cannot allow ourselves to be hobbled by the woes and alienation of our race or nation. It is our responsibility to overcome these, even if we can only succeed in our hearts.

You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

Odonda je prošlo ve? mnogo vremena a on nije naslikao ništa poslije ona dva-tri sretna jesenja dana on nije dugo ve? doživio ništa što bi bilo vrijedno da se uop?e doživi vu?e se po kavanama živi me?u ovim dvonošcima koji nose kišobrane i uvijek kada govore govore o ne?em stvarnom o kruhu ili o mesu mi?u ?eljustima i zubalima od kau?uka a sve je jalovo i nema nikakvog višeg razloga za opstanak.

My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.

Today, new identity groups form around a burning sense of grievance. They're brought together by the very real experience of being left behind economically, disrespected culturally, and immersed in an increasingly alien-seeming, threatening society.

Aroon is always on the outside looking in, always the unwanted hanger-on, the gooseberry.

Il gît, terrassé par ce qui transporte les autres, tellement éloigné de lui-même qu'il prend pour du désespoir ce qui n'est que de l'extase.

I am forced to admit that I am, to them, nothing but a series of destinations with no meaningful expanses in between.

The 'I' [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this 'I' uses a language that is alien to her; this 'I' [Je] experiences what is alien to her since this 'I' [Je] cannot be un ecrivain. J/e poses the ideological and historical question of feminine subjects.

how reality feels. People addicted to busyness, people who don't just use their cell phones in public but display in every nuance of cell-phone deportment their sense of throbbing connectedness to Something Important—these people would suffocate like fish on a dock if they were cut off from the Flow of Events they have conspired with their fellows to create. To these plugged-in players, the rest of us look like zombies, coasting on fumes. For

Our modern cities have become in large part agglomerations of bedroom apartments in which men and women spiritually wither away and their personalities become trivialized by the petty concerns of amusement, consumption, and small talk.

A person who becomes a robot of society is gradually turning into a fantastic undead undead-cyborg, but soulless is what the roboticization of people turns us into.

Lonely people move in the void of nonsense.

The great matrix of loneliness, where money rules, there will always be formal loneliness, robotic consciousness.

Unsociability attracts enemies.

Ce sentiment de n'appartenir à aucun groupe politique, professionnel ou culturel, de n'être liée à aucune communauté idéologique, religieuse ou intellectuelle où il soit possible de se reconnaître en d'autres, des semblables qui puissent entendre et faire entendre un jugement équitable, suivant des règles acceptées par tous, c'est cela qui me manque et me manquera toujours telle que je suis.

Parce que très certainement nous avons toujours connu ce sentiment auquel nous avons donné le nom d'exil. Le sentiment d'être dedans/dehors, d'appartenir sans appartenir.

Even those schizoid people who are confident of the superiority of their perceptions are not indifferent to the effect they may have in alienating others.