Alienation Quotes

“I miss my old life”

— Richard C. Morais

Trees're always a relief, after people.

— David Mitchell

Alienation is to feel that you are a foreigner in your country.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

— Peter Heller

“Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.”

— Sarah Black

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Photography is the product of complete alienation.

— Marcel Proust

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.

— Allen Lacy

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

— Gloria Steinem

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

— Alan Watts

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to…

— Mehbooba Mufti

“With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to…

— H. Alazhar

“It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also…

— Hilton Als

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress…

— Bruno Bauer

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to…

— Rod McKuen

Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon…

— Tim DeChristopher

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the…

— China Mieville

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice…

— Bell Hooks

“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem…

— Russell Brand

“Turning love into a commodity contributed greatly to the expansion of modern alienation ... It is the love of an actual person…

— Rod Dubey

Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect…

— David Edelstein

For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil.…

— Alice Sebold

The music that I have always liked has always been more rooted in anger or sadness or alienation or any of those…

— DJ Shadow

“At the micro-sociological level, most humans are doing better than ever. Yet there is so much confusion, suffering and bitter resentment. How…

— Hanzi Freinacht

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

— Peter Singer

The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf…

— Daniel Quinn

“Steffy risked a glance at her fellow neighbors and townspeople. She often looked for kindred spirits in the crowd. None were ever…

— Jaime Allison Parker

“No one at the factory can remember how long we’ve worked here, or how old we are, yet our pace and productivity…

— Thomas Ligotti

Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension…

— Andrea Dworkin

“A few years ago I heard Jerome Kagan, a distinguished emeritus professor of child psychology at Harvard, say to the Dalai Lama…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

“The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological…

— Erich Fromm

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

— B. W. Powe

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

— Charlie Kaufman

“Man's alienation from man must lead in time to man's alienation from God”

— Robert Nisbet

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

— Terry Southern

Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionaries.

— Jenny Holzer

All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj