Quotes About Alienation

Ale lidé te? nikdy nejsou sami," pravil Mustafa Mond. U?íme je nenávidÄ›t samotu. UspoÃ…â"¢ádali jsme jim život tak, že samota je pro nÄ› tém?? nemožná.

Las burlas le hacían sentirse como un forastero; y, sintiéndose como un forastero, se comportaba como tal.

La visión de aquel rostro transfigurado era a la vez una acusación y un irónico recordatorio de su propio aislamiento. Bernard se sentía ahora tan desdichadamente aislado como cuando había empezado el Servicio; más aislado a causa de su vaciedad no llenada, de su saciedad mortal. Separado y fuera de la armonía, en tanto que los otros se fundían en el Ser Más Grande.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization." "What?" "It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added, in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

Aquel hombre para el que todos en aquel pueblo vivían, se movía siempre en una burbuja de vacío. Como si un precepto tácito ordenara al mundo que lo dejaran vivir solo.

products of soulless machines and relentless globalization…

We belonged nowhere here; we belonged nowhere else.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of every emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves.

What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?

showered, hating the sound of the rushing water; shaved, hating the buzz of the razor. He dressed quickly, not caring what he put on. He had no plan, only to get out of this room, to get away from the unremembered shape of his dreams.

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in close contact with someone to whom she was a nonperson, and who thereby rendered her invisible and of no consequence.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Douglas Coupland

the perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded.

I went to outer space," I said, "But I didn't like it.

Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.

The way sound travelled over a snow-covered forest was like nothing else. He missed that. Here in the city, often the sounds he heard only reminded him of the alien world he lived in.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.