Quotes About Alienation

They look normal, but they don't feel a goddamn thing, don't know happy from sad from a hole in the ground. They walk around smiling and frowning and pretending to feel shit, and think everyone else out there is pretending, too. No one's real to these guys, you know what I mean? I don't mind telling you, Torvingen, they scare the crap out of me.

They both turned to look at me and I wondered how a person could become the outsider so fast.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.

The modern world is condemned precisely by all that with which modern man seeks to justify it.

Liberty is, in fact, alienated from itself in the same gesture in which it is assumed, because free action possesses a coherent structure, an internal organization, a regular proliferation of sequelae. The act unfolds, opens up, and expands into necessary consequences, in a manner compatible with its intimate character and with its intelligible nature. Every act submits a piece of the world to a specific configuration.

I am the asylum of all the ideas displaced by modern ignominy.

Eroticism and Gnosticism are the individual's recourse against the anonymity of mass society.

One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party's demand that people inform on each other routinely and denounce each other during political campaigns. This practice had a profoundly destructive effect on human relationships. Husbands and wives became guarded with each other, and parents were alienated from their children.

Ah! I--to you, Petrovitch, this--" It must be known that Akakiy Akakievitch expressed himself chiefly by prepositions, adverbs, and scraps of phrases which had no meaning whatever.

Death is not the ultimate tragedy of life. The ultimate tragedy is depersonalization--dying in an alien and sterile area, separated from the spiritual nourishment that comes from being able to reach out to a loving hand, separated from the desire to experience the things that make life worth living, separated from hope.

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

Transformando a los hombres en mercancías y dinero, este perverso mecanismo económico ha dado vida a un monstruo, sin patria y sin piedad, que acabará negando también a las futuras generaciones toda forma de esperanza.

Evde oturmaya o kadar al??m???m ki sanki evden ç?k?nca gerçek bir dünyada ya?am?yorum.Evin d???nda her yer sanki ayn?,sanki bütün insanlar birbirine benziyor.Ne ac?kl? de?il mi?

Dünyaya al??mam?? ve al??amayacak ad?mlarla yürüyorlard?..

Her ?eyle aram? bozdum art?k. Her ?ey bana dü?man kesildi. Tanr?m, diye dü?ündüm ilk defa. ?lk defa, Tanr?m dedim, b?raks?nlar beni art?k...

Siyah çerçeveli ciddi bir ilân: bu kitap ne ciddi kavgalar?n, ne büyük ve yayg?n s?k?nt?lar?n, ne de ezilen insanlar?n roman?d?r; bu kitap, mustarip bir ruhun iç çeki?lerinin roman?d?r. Sizlere hizmetten ?eref duyan yay?nevimiz iftiharla sunar: Tutunamayanlar.

Lilith watched them enviously. They didn't lie often to humans because their sensory language had left them with no habit of lying—only of withholding information, refusing contact. Humans, on the other hand, lied easily and often. They could not trust one another. They could not trust one of their own who seemed too close to aliens, who stripped off her clothing and lay down on the ground to help her jailer.

?ycie w t?umie jest gorsze ni? wi?zienie.

I have nowhere to return to. It's like a state of imprisonment. The walls of the cell are the horizon of what I can see. Beyond them exists a world that's alien to me and doesn't belong to me. So for people like me the only thing possible is here and now, for every future is doubtful, everything yet to come is barely sketched and uncertain, like a mirage that can be destroyed by the slightest twitch of the air.

no great significance that are too highly valued. It is in the feet that all knowledge of Mankind lies hidden; the body sends them a weighty sense of who we really are and how we relate to the earth. It's in the touch of the earth, at its point of contact with the body that the whole mystery is located—the fact that we're built of elements of matter, while also being alien to it, separated from it. The feet—those are our plugs into the socket.

For all too many of these high-born revolutionaries, the main attraction of 'the cause' lay not so much in the satisfaction which they might derive from seeing the people's daily lives improved, as in their own romantic search for sense of 'wholeness' which might give higher meaning to their lives and to end alienation from the world.

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.

Disqualified as a human beings. I had now ceased utterly to be a human beings.