Quotes About Alienation

I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self from what I became so much.

I think that there's something that goes on for Robert Langdon where he has a hard time connecting with people.

A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.'

I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.

He who is hated by all can not expect to live long.

Golly, I hated high school.

I hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

I hated high school.

Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'

In L.A., when I was there, I really felt beloved. But the minute you get out of there, it's like everyone else hates you.

We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

There's not one person that hasn't felt like they've been on the outside looking in and going, 'What the hell is that?'

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

I didn't leave the 49ers, I felt like the 49er hierarchy left me.

Like Humpty Dumpty, in the old nursery rhyme, putting the country back together again would not be easy. This feeling of separation and alienation was not a passing thought but lived into the next century.

I don't like you, either. C-3PO

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?

Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be.

As soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen. To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. And what was strange was that even when she was clasping him against her he had the feeling that she was simultaneously pushing him away with all her strength.

Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy, or integrity. You will be hollow.