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Quotes About Alienation

You may find that when you try to live in two worlds you are at home in neither of them.
~ Elizabeth Haydon
have often thought that the terrible thing in communism was not just that we turned against each other. It was that we turned away from each other.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I'm a stranger wherever I go because I'm strange to myself. My mind just goes off doing its own thing, never consulting me at all about whether it's all right to feel this way or that.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I am a stranger in a world I never made
~ Alfred Housman
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Lack of friends means, stranger in one's own country.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Ez egy olyan kor, amikor az emberek mondanak egymásnak dolgokat, és az egészbÅ'l soha nem lesz párbeszéd.
~ Ali Smith
Now I feel I was inserted into life exactly not to do that. For I have been robbed of everything that made me social
~ Alice Notley
It's now strange to live in this body. I don't feel at one with it at all.
~ Alice Notley
I don't reside on your planet. I have never lived.
~ Alice Notley
being discriminated against as a tragic stranger.
~ Alice Notley
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
~ Alison Bechdel
They are caught between one world and another, and they no longer belong anywhere.
~ Alison Croggon
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
~ Allen Ginsberg
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
~ Allen Ginsberg
And no matter how many people surround you, that is still the loneliest place on earth.
~ Ally Carter
If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.
~ John C. Calhoun
What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful.
~ J. D. Vance
You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is that you start to forget about cars and jobs and families and weather and politicians - and all the things that make up a society.
~ Chelsea Manning
On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
~ Alison Gopnik
At one time, no one would touch me with a 10-foot pole.
~ Anita Bryant
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
~ Robert Teeter
My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.
~ John McAfee