Quotes About Alienation

What was the relationship between leaving the country and an aesthetic life? What was it about America in particular that seemed to make one's life unaesthetic?

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters.

A sharp awareness of the other, invisible world to which he could return soon made more tolerable the painstaking ugliness of the one where he now found himself and where, in spite of the passage of years, he'd never stopped being a stranger, an intruder.

Need of the hour is to find the connection between liberation of the women via higher education & the proliferation of divorce /alienation between wife and husband globally and especially in India.

He just couldn't be with people. There were a few kids he sometimes spoke with at school—at lunch, or walking home—but months ago even they had stopped trying to talk to him. Silas had no real answers for their predictable questions.

El desierto no ofrece siquiera la ilusión de que uno podrá ser alguna vez otra cosa que un intruso.

Hunger and cold were like two walls with no room for anything else in between but loneliness, in which a man is a stranger even to himself.

The whole world is covered in buttons, and not one of them is mine!

capitalism as an economic and social system that makes people unhappy by making them into part of a human machine in which humanity is expunged and only productivity remains.

'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

We never had rich girlfriends. All the chicks hated us.

After years of globalisation, disaffected populations have lost confidence that the system is fair.

No matter who you are, you're gonna feel alienated by somebody.

I was in the midst of an ocean of my fellow-men, and yet a perfect stranger to every one.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance

When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he again looked at the people, and was silent. There they stand, said he to his heart; there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.