I think the degree of alienation and despair is more…

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this…

— Amitava Kumar

“The overall impact of postmodernism is that many other groups now share with black folks a sense of deep alienation, despair, uncertainty, loss of…

— Bell Hooks

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of…

— Eric Hoffer

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

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

“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

“Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.”

— Jenny Holzer

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

— Alex Kudera

“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

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