There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy. — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
“A keener interest in trinkets of self-adornment than in people is a symptom of alienation.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
“I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)” — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Everyone has experienced alienation - at some point you go through a moment where you say: "I just want to be left… — Tobias Segal Copy Share Image
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Most of her friends owned laptops and seemed to spend more time with their phones than anything else. Steffy kept her latest… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used… — Umera Ahmad Copy Share Image
“But in a society with no central motivation, so far adrift and puzzled with itself that its President‡ feels called upon to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body. — Marilyn Wann Copy Share Image
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under… — Norman Manea Copy Share Image
Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … .… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
