I am too far away from what I love and my distance is…

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

“Everyone who lived in high-up, magical places must feel the same way. You come down into the world and you mingle, but all the…

— Arjum Hasan

“If his long day were lived in a European novel, he'd become "D" when on the run or near disappeared.”

— Alex Kudera

Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects…

— Loren Eiseley

“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same…

— Virginia Woolf

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape…

— Jean Baudrillard

The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self,…

— Thomas Berry

“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood and language, united indissolubly by all…

— Henry Miller

“Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.”

— Jenny Holzer

“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity becomes ‘activity…

— Peter Singer

I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not…

— Judith Levine

Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall'…

— Nick Mason

“Most of her friends owned laptops and seemed to spend more time with their phones than anything else. Steffy kept her latest playlists and…

— Jaime Allison Parker

The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West…

— Billy Graham

What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful.

— J. D. Vance