Quotes About Alienation

Being alone doesn't mean being where there are no people. It means being where people are all strangers to you.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined he might feel standing all alone on the surface of the moon.

Strangers don't smile at me. Even though I'm only 17, I'm too big to get smiles.

We live in a society controlled by a few, their decisions determine our futures. We live for them, but never see them, for they are not of this earth"     Simon Lewis 2015

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. — Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After . (Harper Perennial; Original edition July 5, 2011)

I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

Our epoch does not love itself.

I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.

One day, upon awakening from troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin." —Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis One day, upon awakening, Haileab Asgedom found himself, in America, transformed into a monstrous black beetle.

She was utterly alone to-night in the midst of a vast indifference.

and everything is inhuman

Autopsy read: dead of acute peoplelessness.

People were those who lived on my side of town. I didn't like them all, or, in fact, any of them very much, but they were people. These others, the strange pale creatures that lived in their alien unlife, weren't considered Folks.

We act in and against a world that remains other to us. Reduced to nothing but users, and our actions forced into the commodity form, our collective work and play produces a world over and against us, one that massively persists in its own habits of functioning.53 Worse, collective human labor made a world for a ruling class that keeps making not only itself but us in its image.

I don't seem to fit to associate with humans.

No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.

New York est la ville où l'on se sent chez soi quand on est de nulle part.

He went to the bar and stood there a while. But he was in the way of people getting their drinks. He moved to the edge of the crowd and just watched. Suddenly it seemed, he was drunk, in a suit that didn't fit, at a party where he didn't know anyone, and he was standing alone.

She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.