Quotes About Alienation

I really do not know what I mean, except to say that on some very fundamental level, I feel invisible in the world.

Intimacy became a ghastly thing.

Mailer's Negro lived in a realm of Nietzschean nihilism, of Being-for-Itself.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

Delivered to oblivion...growing and flowering with incense and weeds to the sullen whine of nasty flies... I loved deserts, burnt out orchards, faded boutiques...I dragged myself down stinking alleyways... General, if there's an old cannon left, aim for the glass of splendid shops, into the living rooms...make the city eat its own dust.

Cielos! ¡Somos ya bastantes los condenados aquí abajo! ¡Llevo ya tanto tiempo en su rebaño! Los conozco a todos. Nos reconocemos siempre; nos damos asco.

Houve um tempo em que havia homens livres. Havia desertos, estepes, bosques, campos, lugares onde o ser humano podia ser dono de si mesmo. Hoje, a televisão por satélite, o telemóvel, as telecomunicações, a Internet, mataram o homem livre. -- Entrevista ao Expresso, publicada em 29/01/2021 na Edição nº 2518 da Revista

The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.

There is that sense of belonging one never has except in one's own country. Anywhere else, no matter how long you stay, they never let you forget you are alien. Indeed, it is a good thing, because it is on foreign soil that you are made more conscious of your own roots and consequently become more knowledgable. And that is why, in my writings, I talk of my country, present my people to others.

Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own lightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.

By some estimates, 80% of rap music is bought by white youth. And this makes for another irony. The blooming of white alienation has brought us the first generation of black entrepreneurs with wide-open access to the American mainstream.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level.

'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

I remember reading 'Catcher in the Rye,' but I don't think I got it.

I always felt that I wasn't as American as Americans and then I realised when I got back to the Philippines that I was not Filipino.

With 'Greenberg,' I wanted to make a movie about Los Angeles... my great love for it and also the way that I felt not at home and alienated there.

Everybody else was quoting 2Pac, and I was running around with Green Day in my Walkman. Racially speaking, I wasn't cool or appropriate for any group.

I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.

It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That's exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It's lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

Now nothing is happening and nothing will ever happen again. Money has taken away everything.