Quotes About Alienation

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

But if you're just a stranger to everybody on earth, then that's what you are and there's no end to it. You don't know the words to say.

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I have always found that hell is other people.

Everyone is "extremely nice"—and yet I feel entirely alone. ("Abandonitis").

Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an aquarium; I see everything close up and yet cut off, made of some other substance; I keep falling outside myself, without dizziness, without blue, into precision.

Alone, alienated, and often far from his family, the exile turned to the mosque, where he found companionship and the consolation of religion. Islam provided the element of commonality. It was more than a faith -- it was an identity.

I felt like a man who wakes alone on a deserted island to find that the rest of the world has stolen away in boats in the night. I felt like I was standing on a shore, watching small receding shapes on the horizon. I felt like I had been speaking English, and now I realized everyone else had been speaking a different language entirely. The world was changing. And I didn't want it to.

The attempt to make man absolutely at home in this world ended in man's becoming absolutely homeless.

Both sides in Germany's cultural battle elevated feeling above reason. And both sides experienced the same basic kind of feeling. The left called it alienation or the angst of nothingness. The right called it götterdämmerung or the philosophy of Schopenhauer. The common denominator is the conviction of doom.

I knew it. You're an alien," said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. "Yes, I'm an alien and I still made cheerleader. And now I'm going to steal your boyfriend to prove girls can't really be friends." "I sat back timidly when you torched my house, killed my parents, and ate my dog. But now you're stealing my boyfriend? That's a step too far!

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Mass society has displaced real community, where people function together and account for their own lives.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

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.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society.

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Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.