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Quotes About Alienation

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
People tend to keep their distance.
~ Adam Ant
I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.
~ Steve Buscemi
There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.
~ Diablo Cody
Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.
~ Toyah Willcox
When I was a young comic just starting out, I was very cautious, as I didn't want to alienate people. George Carlin's bravery became a benchmark. I became perfectly fine with alienating some people in the audience. That just comes with the territory.
~ Paul Provenza
Man's alienation from man must lead in time to man's alienation from God
~ Robert Nisbet
The guy's alone and apart - that's the message.' 'Then perhaps it's what we all feel at times - the hell of alienation' 'Maybe, or what some of us see as the inevitable fall from grace,
~ Robert Sims
There are too many people, and too few human beings.
~ Robert Zend
No existo ni para el capitán ni para Elsa, ni para Barsut.
~ Roberto Arlt
Lo que llamamos locura es la descostumbre del pensamiento de los otros.
~ Roberto Arlt
Caminaba como antes por las calles, miraba los objetos que se exhiben en las vitrinas, y hasta me detenía sorprendido frente a ciertas ingeniosidades de la industria, mas la verdad es que estaba horriblemente solo.
~ Roberto Arlt
This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I will go back to writing my poems, such as they are, find a job to keep body and soul together, and make no attempt to be published.
~ Roberto Bolano
On the ride back to the hotel, they lost the sense of being in a hostile environment, although hostile wasn't the word, an environment whose language they refused to recognize, an environment that existed on some parallel plane where they couldn't make their presence felt, imprint themselves, unless they raised their voices, unless they argued, something they had no intention of doing.
~ Roberto Bolano
they lost the sense of being in a hostile environment, although hostile wasn't the word, an environment whose language they refused to recognize, an environment that existed on some parallel plane where they couldn't make their presence felt
~ Roberto Bolano
Ovo je moj poslednji izveštaj sa planete monstruma. Nikada više ne?u da zaronim u more književnog sranja. Ubudu?e ?u skromno da pišem pesme i radi?u da ne bih umro od gladi i ne?u pokušavati da objavljujem.
~ Roberto Bolano
Desde que yo entré en la universidad el foso que nos separaba se agrandó de golpe y ahora somos como de dos planetas distintos.
~ Roberto Bolano
Esta es mi última transmisión desde el planeta de los monstruos. No me sumergiré nunca más en el mar de mierda de la literatura. En adelante escribiré mis poemas con humildad y trabajaré para no morirme de hambre y no intentaré publicar.
~ Roberto Bolano
She was just a sad girl, I think, lost now among the multitudes.
~ Roberto Bolano
Ésta es mi última transmisión desde el planeta de los monstruos. No me sumergiré nunca más en el mar de mierda de la literatura.
~ Roberto Bolano
It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way
~ Robertson Davies
I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.
~ Robin Hobb
Humanity has become a lonely race, and dangerously arrogant in our solitude.
~ Robin Hobb
I was marching to the beat of my own drummer, and I was clearly out of step with reality.
~ Robin Schwarz