Quotes About Alienation

And nevertheless, no, I have nothing to say to them, to my parents. Nothing. Nothing and everything, as always. If I tried – out of boldness, through luck, or in distress – to share with them some of the violence that causes me to be so totally on my own, they would not know where I am, who I am, what it is, in others, that rubs me the wrong way.

The foreigner's friends, aside from bleeding hearts who feel obliged to do good, could only be those who feel foreign to themselves.

I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.

I don't feel comfortable as an insider.

With work and life, your true depth can become an alien thing to you. Your gut feelings, your instincts become buried.

I'm not designed to interact with society.

What is a man cast out of the kingdom of men?

It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.

But it really all boils down to this - we don't know them, for all our sincerity, our good intentions. We don't know, because we were never one of them.

Somewhere to the eastward a wolf howled; lightly, questioningly. I knew the voice, for I had heard it many times before. It was George, sounding the wasteland for an echo from the missing members of his family. But for me it was a voice which spoke of the lost world which once was ours before we chose the alien role; a world which I had glimpsed and almost entered...only to be excluded, at the end, by my own self.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets lost, but I recognise that New York is the world's greatest lie.

Ce soir, ils te sont étrangers et sont étrangers l'un à l'autre ; l'atmosphère est grise : des grumeaux dans un liquide sale ; tout est raté. Et tu passes ta nuit avec ce poids sur le cÅ"ur, complètement dégoûté d'eux. Le lendemain matin, tu les trouves frais et réussis comme une pâtisserie bien faite. (p. 23)

sentados en sus culos alicorándose y viendo en la caja estúpida a veintidós adultos infantiles darle patadas a un balón.

Pero por qué me preocupa a mí Colombia si ya no es mía, es ajena?

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

Ahora eran extraños, no, peor que extraños, porque entre ellos no existía la posibilidad de que llegaran a ser amigos. Se trataba de un alejamiento perpetuo.

Estaba tan lejos de tus preocupaciones que te evadías no por el terror, sino por el fastidio.

C'était l'époque où une de ces phrases saisonnières dont la France était friande traînait sur toutes les lèvres : "L'enfer, c'est les autres." Pour moi, au contraire, l'enfer, je le vérifiais à mes dépens, c'est d'être toujours autre soi-même, au point d'être de nulle part.

He felt worse than naked in front of them, as if something had torn out his middke and left him a ridiculous doughnut boy that everyone could look right through.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

There is something wrong when a brother or sister becomes alienated from the rest of their family, so there is something wrong when Christians refuse to have anything to do with their fellow Christians. God wants us to live this Christian life together.

We discussed the present, but what we really meant was our past. Both of us were living among the living, yet we didn't really belong with them- we were actually the dead, on stolen leave, accidental survivors who got left behind in life.

Normal people never like me.