Alienation Quotes · Page 3

“You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.”

— Mark David Henderson

Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

— Ricardo Semler

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

— Maxwell Maltz

“The book of Jonah becomes an embarrassing and public reading of your family business.”

— Michael Ben Zehabe

Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.

— Liv Hewson

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human…

— Alex Campbell

“Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance?”

— Alisia Compton

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

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets…

— Bertolt Brecht

“We must remember that loneliness is not the real enemy - alienation from ourselves is. We are never lonely because we have…

— Katherine Woodward Thomas

... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my…

— Albert Camus

“Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its…

— Erik Pevernagie

“[the abject] is simply a frontier, a repulsive gift that the Other, having become alter ego, drops so that the "I" does…

— Julia Kristeva

We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world…

— Thomas Berry

“Quite often, the consequence of gaining literacy or critical consciousness is alienation not just from the values of the dominant culture, but…

— Margo V. Perkins

I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become…

— Felicity Huffman

“I lean back and tilt my head so all I see are the clouds in the sky. I'm looking back inside my…

— David Wojnarowicz

What I like about [Berthold] Brecht, it's very interesting. When Helene Weigel came over and somebody talked about Lotte Lenya and said…

— John Hurt

“The idea of the family as a protective haven is a myth, the family unit cannot provide the haven it promises. On…

— Nicola Field

When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think…

— Wes Jackson

And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word…

— Eula Biss

“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

Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“For many people, the expression “disconnecting from the world” essentially means disconnecting from society—for this is the only world they know.”

— Sov8840

“Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.”

— Susan Howatch

“In the digital age, we may become self-important enough to be recognised, but never truly important enough to be known or valued.”

— Stewart Stafford

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do

— Judd Nelson

'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

— Matt Groening

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not…

— Eugene Ionesco

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

— John le Carre

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

— Bob Woodward

“A keener interest in trinkets of self-adornment than in people is a symptom of alienation.”

— Kōbō Abe

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this…

— Rebecca Solnit

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

— Ivan Turgenev

“But vilifying those we love always alienates us from them to a certain extent. Idols should not be touched: the gilding comes…

— Gustave Flaubert

Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place…

— Mariah Carey

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

— Karl Marx

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Alex Kudera