Quotes About Alienation

It was in a certain sense home – the place, that is, where one doesn't feel.

Mi s-a vorbit despre oameni,despre umanitate, Numai c? eu n-am v?zut niciodat? nici oameni,nici umanitate. Am v?zut diver?i oameni vertiginos de diferi?i unii fa?? de al?ii, Fiecare separat de cel?lalt de un spa?iu lipsit de oameni.

We all live far away and anonymous; disguised, we suffer as unknowns.

Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.

People only make us lonelier by reminding us of God.

All day Joy sat on her neck in a deep chair, reading. Sometimes she went for walks but she didn't like dogs or cats or birds or flowers or nature or nice young men. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

The thought crossed my mind about not wanting to alienate my fan base, but I don't know what would alienate them or bring them in, so I decided not to think about it.

I never felt I was attractive to women. I felt I was attractive to men when I was growing up. And even now, if a woman fancies me, I find that a bit alienating.

I am fascinated by that person who is trying to live authentically, but they are on the outside of society, so how do they manage in the world around them?

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

I never really felt I belonged; there was always a sense of apartness. At school, I was the cricketer.

This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?

It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.

I never really fit in anywhere.

I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

Did you ever feel as if the whole world was a tuxedo, and you were a pair of brown shoes?

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

People who feel alienated have little trust in the institutions of our society. This adds to the wider sense of disaffection and makes it more difficult for our politics to work.