'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
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
“The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“People who feel imprisoned in a pen of alienation, in a world of misfits, clobbered by unresponsiveness and indifference, may find release… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become… — Felicity Huffman 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
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery… — David Foster Wallace 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
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Lost in Translation' movie says something interesting about the alienation of being a stranger in a strange land, but also of being… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
I'm the classic example of alienation: I grew up in a middle-class household without art or books. I was going to be… — Richard Eyre 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
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith.… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never… — Erich Fromm 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
What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite. — Ivan Turgenev 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
