Quotes About Alienation

The theory of evolution also had a very great effect in alienating science from religion and creating a world in which one could go about studying the wonders of creation without ever having a sense of wonder in the religious sense of that term.

The world is a deaf machine

We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Corporations turned the human into a robot a long time ago.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

They had always been comfortable together. She could hardly bear to be in his company now and to feel a stranger.

there are still times when the thief I started out to be feels more authentic to me than the priest I've been for decades. To be pulled out of a slum and educated is to be an outsider forever— He stopped talking, deeply embarrassed. Giuliani could never understand the price scholarship boys paid for their education: the inevitable alienation from your uncomprehending family, from roots, from your own first person, from the original I you once were.

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being...

I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation—deep, dark, death-like solitude.

When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.

But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing. From my earliest remembrance I had been as I then was in height and proportion. I had never yet seen a being resembling me or who claimed any intercourse with me. What was I? The question again recurred, to be answered only with groans.

Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone and irrevocably excluded.

Shall I not then hate them who abhor me?

Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing?

En todas partes veo la felicidad, de la que sólo yo me encuentro irrevocablemente excluido

I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on

Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.

Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.

Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous.

for to me the walls of a dungeon or a palace were alike hateful. The cup of life was poisoned for ever; and