Quotes About Alienation

What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way to encapsulate it in a form that made the public finally get industrial music.

I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

Kako joj objasniti zatvoreni svijet u kojem živim, to da sam ja problem, uzrok nesre?e ljudi oko mene?

un jour contraints de consommer un monde dans le quel nous aurons été absents pendant trop longtemps

Will sabía lo que era la soledad, entendía lo que era estar apartado del mundo en el que uno vive y ser un extraño entre tu propia gente. Will lo entendía. Will me entendía.

Stranger in a strange country.

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life

Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

Now, my evil sense of alienation is eliminated, since I have heard the Praises of the Lord with my ears.

Ä°nsanlar?n aras?nda yaln?z olmaktan daha korkunç bir ÅŸey yoktur.

Yanl?z kalmaya ve kendi ateÅŸimle kavrulmaya daha fazla dayanamayacakt?m. Fakat bütün bak??lar beni yalay?p geçiyordu, kimse varl???m? hissetmek istemiyordu.

At that moment I was fully aware for the first time how far advanced the process of paralysis already was in me—it was as if I were moving through flowing, bright water without being halted or taking root anywhere, and I knew very well that this chill was something dead and corpse-like, not yet surrounded by the foul breath of decomposition but already numbed beyond recovery, a grimly cold lack of emotion.

Van realmente a tolerar ser descaradamente empujados a un lado, tolerar esa fría ignorancia, a la joven austríaca que se rodea de tipos desconocidos y mujeres dudosas, en vez de rodearse de la nobleza tradicional, asentada durante siglos? Los excluidos se arremolinan. Cada día, cada año aumentan sus filas. Y pronto por las desiertas ventanas de Versalles el odio de cien ojos mira hacia el despreocupado e ingenuo mundo de juegos de la reina.

Nietzsche's own thoughts gathered around him and with which he was entrapped as by an impenetrable bell glass, a solitude wherein there were no flowers or colours or music or beasts or men, a solitude whence even God was excluded, the dead and petrified solitude of some primeval world which existed long ago or may come into being aeons hence.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home.

He had not spoken to a desirable woman who was not at some level his enemy or a whore since 1944.

Hopper's Nighthawks.

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.