Quotes About Alienation

I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.

I don't like people. They fuck me up.

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

I don't like people. They fuck me up

There's an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.

Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

Loneliness is the endless disease that eats at our soul.

All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I'm going through.

there is no understanding between me and this worldthey don't understand me and i don't care them.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore.

I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, and I learned to hate.

I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

a mere increase of wages will never redeem the evils of the industrial system

As Pierre Manent described it, the city is anything but a family or community. "In reality, it subordinates the family and the group.… It takes young men from their families living, and brings them back dead.

The city feels as alien as to me as it always has. But, then, everywhere does, these days.

For the first time since I had arrived in America I had an almost physical sense of being in the wrong place, as if I were being tugged by an invisible cords to somewhere a million miles away.

For the first time since I had arrived in America I had an almost physical sense of being in the wrong place, as if I were being tugged by invisible cords to somewhere a million miles away.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive ' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

Where does it begin this sense of being the Other?

why are we so alone?