“All this sea of humanity reassured me that as alien as i felt, there were always others in the world far odder… — Richard C. Morais Copy Share Image
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool. — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it,… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can… — Fereidoon Yazdi Copy Share Image
That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on… — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what… — Nick Mason Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[Our errors] represent a moment of alienation, both from ourselves and from a previously convincing vision of the world. But what's wrong… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“...it really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must… — Sophie Hayes Copy Share Image
“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture,… — Emma Smith Copy Share Image
“Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon—parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms… — Douglas Wynne Copy Share Image
“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina… — Saidiya Hartman Copy Share Image
“I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“The separation of the individual from a corporeal relationship with the Soul is mirrored in the separation of the individual from nature.… — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
“Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Being a narcissist isn't easy when the question is not of loving your own image, but of recreating the self through deliberate… — Orlan Copy Share Image
I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
“She was used to living her life from a distance, watching herself from the back row as she mouthed someone else’s lines… — Samantha Sotto Yambao Copy Share Image
Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from… — Philip Carr-Gomm Copy Share Image
Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions. — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“If his long day were lived in a European novel, he'd become "D" when on the run or near disappeared.” — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
“The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to… — H. Alazhar Copy Share Image
“With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to… — Mehbooba Mufti Copy Share Image
I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image