Quotes About Alienation

Pero había en mí una desolación infinita, la sensación, inexpresable en palabras, de que nada en aquel mundo ligaba, de que todo estaba torcido y que no había ningún ser humano ni uno solo, en quien apoyarse.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

Ramona wasn't at home anywhere. She felt like a spy in life and the ending of every great book and each orgasm, and the sight of every homeless shopping bag lady infected her with a titanic yearning for the world to make an unscheduled stop.

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.

I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower... just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I'm doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not.

I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.

I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.

I've often felt I don't belong quite wherever I am.

What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S.

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble.

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

When I was in high school. I was considered really weird and strange, and people kind of kept their distance.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

There were some days where I was like, you know what, I don't relate to everything that I'm hearing on the radio right now. Because I'm having a bad time, I'm having a rough day, I'm experiencing something that is making me feel alienated in this emotion because everything I'm hearing is about the opposite.

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in.

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.