Quotes About Alienation

Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness.

I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.

I feel trapped in my body. I want to be like like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy,' when she unlocks everything within her - I want to do that. I want to be the alien in 'Arrival' - a spitty, infinite-time-loop creature.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.

There is that small chance I'll get what I want; to be someone to relate to for anyone who is as alienated, awkward, spastic and passionate as me.

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

The fundamental experience of human suffering is the experience of alienation from the self, from the source—from God.

De Kierkegaard y Heidegger, aprendemos que nuestro núcleo emocional es una profunda sensación de temor y culpa. De Marx, tenemos un sentimiento profundo de alienación, victimización y rabia. De Nietzsche, descubrimos una profunda necesidad de poder. De Freud, develamos las urgencias de una sexualidad oscura y agresiva. Rabia, poder, culpa, lujuria y temor constituyen el centro del universo emocional posmoderno.

What he called his own personal night was about the feeling of being nothing, of having no worth, of having spent himself in a war nobody cared about, and having given up everything that was important and good.

I was becoming a product of society, a hardened juvenile! Now I was becoming rebellious and hateful.

I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.

I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody.

So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

Also, as it came to be exposed later, some FSA-affiliated groups engaged in theft and robbery and claimed the Assad forces were behind it. As time went by, however, lawlessness became more pronounced and a major source of grievance for the local communities. Some FSA factions opted to leave the front lines and busy themselves with moneymaking activities in their areas. Factionalism, profit-making, and incompetence started to alienate people.

Le fou ce ne sera plus l'exilé, celui qu'on repousse dans les marges de nos villes, mais celui qu'on rend étranger à lui même en le culpabilisant d'être celui qu'il est.