Alienation Quotes

Trees're always a relief, after people.

— David Mitchell

“I miss my old life”

— Richard C. Morais

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

— Ivan Illich

“But he seemed alone, absolutely alone in the universe.”

— Herman Melville

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

— Mike Birbiglia

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

— Harold Pinter

Lift me from the wonder maze, alienation is the craze.

— The Cars

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

— Alec Baldwin

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

— Will Cuppy

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

— Mark Sheppard

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

— Marilyn Wann

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

— R. D. Laing

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

People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.

— Richard Greenberg

American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that…

— Jessa Crispin

“As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree.”

— Albert Camus

“I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)”

— Frans de Waal

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

To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man…

— Alain Badiou

That's why there is such alienation, depression, and despair in our society - because the means we're employing doesn't lead to the…

— Tim DeChristopher

If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning,…

— Byron Katie

What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

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

— Susan Sontag

What's incredible with Trent Reznor is how he took all the alienation and the rejection of traditional rock and found a way…

— Genesis P-Orridge

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Amitava Kumar

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that…

— Nadine Gordimer

I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a…

— Harlan Ellison

That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in…

— Peter van Agtmael

Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in…

— Vaclav Havel

“It is the phenomenon somethings called "alienation from self." In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might…

— Joan Didion

We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter.…

— Tom Robbins

“Modern capitalism needs men who co-operate smoothly, and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are…

— Erich Fromm

The child says, "Well geesh, the institutions that I'm supposed to respect - the church and the government - they're telling me…

— Harold Ramis

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

— Arthur Miller

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

— Carrie P. Meek

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ALIENATION IS WHEN YOUR COUNTRY IS AT WAR AND YOU WANT THE OTHER SIDE TO WIN.”

— Gloria Steinem

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

— B. W. Powe