Quotes About Alienation

Arendt's "totalitarian personality," the "completely isolated human being who, without any other social ties to family, friends, comrades, or even mere acquaintances, derives his sense of having a place in the world only from his belonging to a movement, his membership in the party.

I was fifteen years old when I began to hate people.

I didn't feel at home in life.

And I say to myself that the trouble with life is that people are strangers.

I'm like a jew who ends up in the wrong country. I'm not a part. I'm not a member. I'm frozen.

Voie étroite, en écrivant, entre la réhabilitation d'un mode de vie considéré comme inférieur, et la dénonciation de l'aliénation qui l'accompagne.

On découvrait le "nouveau roman", Butor, Robbe-Grillet, Sollers, Sarraute, on voulait l'aimer mais on ne trouvait pas en lui assez de secours pour vivre.

Grounding is not dull and lifeless, but dynamic and vibrant. Generally it is our tension that makes us lethargic, and tension results from alienation between various parts of ourselves. As these parts are simplified and integrated, we experience increased vitality.

Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

I said that there is considerable alienation among the people of Kashmir which is primarily because of the human rights excesses by the security forces in Kashmir and the impunity from prosecution given to them by the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

With people like us our home is where we are not.

you just don't know how bad it feels to have people who don't even know you hate you, and for something you had nothing to do with.

It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.

Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't wish to be, and don't even wish to be taken for being. Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us. [23](Zenith trans.)

To belong is synonymous with banality.

Tenho a náusea física da humanidade vulgar, que é, aliás, a única que há. E capricho, ás vezes, em aprofundar essa náusea, como se pode provocar um vomito para aliviar a vontade de vomitar.

I feel so isolated that I'm aware of the distance between me and my suit.

I'm like a being from another existence who passes, with a certain amount of interest, through this one. I'm alien to it in every way. There's a kind of glass sheet between me and it. I want the glass to be perfectly clear, so that it will in no way hinder my examination of what's behind it, but I always want the glass.

I am troubled by a crushing physical sense of other people's lack of comprehension.