Quotes About Alienation

He wouldn't look at me. He stood against the wall, trying to merge with the wall.

One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.

Today, we have knowledge of many, many things and the relations among human beings have multiplied ad infinitum. But we live in cities that are like deafening factories in awful Babels, with nothing to remind us of our inner world. Our communion with this inner world is not through contemplation but through books. We have passed from intuition into intellectualism.

Jed was used to isolation. His face was like some kind of cul-de-sac. It said NO THROUGH ROAD to most people. Confronted with him, they always turned around, backed away.

Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world, the human world as well as nature, of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships

One minute he was moving securely through time and space, in perfect coordination with other people; then, with no warning, he was out of step, was somehow removed from everyone else's sense of time and place, so that the slightest movement, word, facial expression or gesture contained enormous significance. The room filled with coded messages that he could not decode, and he slipped quickly into barely controlled hysteria.

Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Bundan sonra aradaki buzu çözmeye, bu insanlar?n birbirlerine kar?? duyduklar? müthi? yabanc?l??? gidermeye imkan yoktu. ?nsanlar birbirlerini tan?man?n ne kadar güç oldu?unu bildikleri için bu zahmetli i?e te?ebbüs etmektense, körler gibi rastgele dola?may? ve ancak çarp??t?kça birbirlerinin mevcudiyetinden haberdar olmay? tercih ediyorlar.

Bana hareket etmek, görmek, duymak, hissetmek, dü?ünmek, hülasa ya?amak kabiliyetlerini veren bir ?ey içimden çekilip al?nm?? gibi, posa haline geldi?imi fark ettim.

bir müddet daha dü?ününce dünyada da hiçbir yere ba?l? olmad???n? hissetti ve içten içe bu kadar yabanc? oldu?u bu hayatta kendisini birçok kay?tlar?n ku?atmas?na, ondan, istedi?i gibi bir hareket imkanlar?n? almas?na müthi? içerledi.

Na kraju, zar jedan od razloga moje otu?enosti i distanciranosti od ljudi što me okružuju nije bio taj što me?u njima nisam uspijevao prona?i ljude koja sam upoznao i prigrlio u romanima?

Ben... Ate? gibi yanan kalbimin s?cakl???n? ne kadar sarf etsem bu so?uk tabakay? ?s?tamayaca??m? anl?yorum. Ad?mlar?m hiç kimseninkine uymuyor. Herkes beni yolun ortas?nda b?rak?veriyor... Yolun ortas?nda... Herkes...

the many artificial ways in which we distance ourselves from the earth—in the form of pavements and multi-storied structures, or even the widespread trend of wearing high heels—involves an alienation of the part from the whole and suffocates the fundamental life process. This

Fat people often think of themselves solely in terms of the 'neck up.' Their bodies are disowned, alienated, foreign, perhaps stubbornly present but not truly a part of the real self.

It was the central thing; it was the way you understood yourself; if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. Everyone knew that. Falling

By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." ... Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.

if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. Everyone knew that.

Grace and Cordelia and Carol hang around the edges of my life, enticing, jeering, growing paler and paler every day, less and less substantial. I hardly hear them any more because I hardly listen.

But the truth is that I don't know what the villagers thought or talked about, I was so shut off from them. The older ones occasionally crossed themselves when we passed, possibly because my mother was wearing slacks, but even that was never explained.

Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light-footed strangers, these proud fools who took pride in something they had lost, seeming to be proud that they had lost it.

Sometimes she thought that all the people she had ever known were strangers except Rhett. "Can't

She knew she had changed too, but not as they had changed, and it puzzled her. She sat and watched them and she felt herself an alien among them, as alien and lonely as if she had come from another world, speaking a language they did not understand and she not understanding theirs.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.