There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“...just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they’re alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they’re lonely.” — Jason Daniel Chaplin Copy Share Image
Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities. — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
“The sensation that had plagued me after graduating, of being on the outside of some mystery, peeking in, returned.” — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What unites Trump's voters is a sense of alienation from America's wealthy and powerful. — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … .… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Unseeing, even when seen unfeeling, even when felt, to those scattered loves and the abashment that meet the eyes, I had tried… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under… — Norman Manea Copy Share Image
Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most of her friends owned laptops and seemed to spend more time with their phones than anything else. Steffy kept her latest… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
“But in a society with no central motivation, so far adrift and puzzled with itself that its President‡ feels called upon to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used… — Umera Ahmad Copy Share Image
“Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Socialism is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. — Jerry Mander Copy Share Image
The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many… — Kate Zambreno 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
“I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)” — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body. — Marilyn Wann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
American culture never necessarily made sense to me, but they should warn you: leaving comes with a huge sense of alienation that… — Jessa Crispin Copy Share Image
A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this… — Rebecca Solnit 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
