Quotes About Alienation

En el exilio todo intento de arraigo se considera traición: es el reconocimiento de la derrota.

She has lost her city eyes. Who you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

Outward success alienates a man from himself.

I have come from a planet called sorrow.

Apoi ajunse s? se îndoiasc? de inocenÈ›a sa, ceea ce justifica oarecum ideile guvernatorului asupra alienaÈ›iei mintale, în sfârÈ™it, c?zu de la în?lÈ›imea orgoliului È™i se rug?, nu îns? lui Dumnezeu, ci oamenilor. Dumnezeu e ultima instan??. Nenorocitul care ar trebui s? înceap? cu Domnul, nu îÈ™i pune speranÈ›ele în EL, decât dup? ce le-a epuizat pe toate celelalte.

he had so long ceased to have any intercourse with the world, that he looked upon himself as dead. The

Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.

Each of them, withdrawn and apart, is like a stranger to the destiny of all the others; his children and his particular friends form the whole human species for him; as for dwelling with his fellow citizens, he is beside them, but he does not see them; he touches them and does not feel them; he exists only in himself and for himself alone, and if a family still remains for him, one can at least say that he no longer has a native country.

He was Gully Foyle, the oiler, wiper, bunkerman; too easy for trouble, too slow for fun, too empty for friendship, too lazy for love.

The lonelier you are, the more you pull away, until humans seem an alien race, with customs and a language you can't begin to understand.

Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page.

Somehow, I knew how alone he felt, and it gave me shivers to think that alienation could be a shared experience.

Loneliness can drive even the most alienated person to attempt to make cotact with another soul, even when it's via a soullness medium.

In what is described as depression and experienced as emptiness, futility, fear of impoverishment, and loneliness can usually be recognized as the tragic loss of the self in childhood, manifested as the total alienation from the self in the adult.

As a child he was deprived of genuine communication. He suffered unspeakably from this deficiency, and all his works describe nothing other than miscommunication, be it The Castle, The Trial, or The Metamorphosis. In all these novels and stories the questions are never heard—they are answered with strange distortions, and the central figures are totally isolated, totally incapable of getting someone to listen.

I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.

Do you know how alone I've always felt?

It's worse than unwelcome, said Samuel. The Africans don't even see us. They don't even recognize us as the brothers and sisters they sold.

artificial trees, robot sofas, Ignorant cars- One Way Street to Heaven

The demonizing and devaluing of certain segments of the population during the last two decades of the nineteenth century would grow in both support and legitimacy.

Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.

This world was no place for anyone with access to another.